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Origin: For Pucksy, from Puck.
1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
Alternative forms: picksy.
2. <botany> A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in new Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle.
<botany> Pixy stool, a toadstool or mushroom.
(01 Mar 1998)
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