pixieish , also: pixyish

She was small, and pretty in a pixieish sort of way.

It was the pixieish one who had asked Fat Charlie where they were going.

Chris Magee, a pixieish 8-year-old, is asked about his team's two previous games.

"It was a rather pixieish toast," he said yesterday.

She had delicate, pixieish features and the most adorable dimples.

If there's one thing even humans can tell, it's that the Ship isn't very pixieish."

She had pixieish features with a small upturned nose and large eves.

She was dressed all in black, including her lace-trimmed gloves, with orange hair and a pale, pixieish face.

Jolen also gave him the same pixieish smile Jewlan had on several occasions.

He thought of the pixieish brunette who had strolled by the house with her mother a couple of days before.

Up close she was very slim, with light-brown hair almost as long as Diana's and a pretty, pixieish face.

For many, the highlight is a parade of mule-drawn wagons, pixieish beauty queens and waving politicians.

She was pixieish and enterprising, and she was dynamite in court.

It was Charlotte Baker, a pixieish nurse's aide.

The face of the pixieish Ms. Mercuriali, who plays the smaller woman, is a mask of anxiety.

"In and out of the hospital, peaks and valleys get closer," chants a pixieish 25-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis.

So was Jennifer Greene, a pixieish 21-year-old who admitted that on her registration form she had said she was 18.

The white-bearded, pixieish leader of the Clear Lake Municipal Band has been doing the same thing for 50 years.

My father, a pixieish dreamer who grew up the son of a socialist physician in Philadelphia, started his practice in the Village after the war.

More than any prodigy in quite some time, Midori has captured the popular imagination with her combination of pixieish charm and polished musicianship.

Dr. Malhotra, a nattily dressed, pixieish and smoothly confident young man, described himself as a classic novelty-seeking type.

When Simbal had known her, she had had short hair and there had been a pixieish quality about her that was now gone.

His educational philosophy is reported as a "Victorian disciplinarian [who] was sometimes subverted by a pixieish manner."

Kia now wears a pixieish hair style, a dime store's ring and a pink shirt emblazoned with the logo, "Cutest."

Now 77, he is a pixieish, winsome man who speaks in a pleasantly resigned tone, expressing a healthy inner conflict between self-regard and self-deprecation.