nixie

noun

Definition of nixienext
as in fairy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nixie
  1. goblin
  2. elf
  3. changeling
  4. troll
  5. faerie
  6. gnome
  7. kelpie
Noun
  • Watching him dance and sing with a room full of demented goblins never really gets old.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The valley is unofficially divided into three sections: the First Valley, a mostly flat area with stunted goblins; the Second Valley, marked by a large gray dome with slightly taller goblins; and the Third Valley.
    Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024
Definition of goblin
Noun
  • Although the elves will be on display 24 hours a day, they will only be animated at the following times: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Even with those issues, Rock still managed to sell the first main sketch of the night, about a Christmas mall elf giving parents the uncomfortable choice between a white Santa (James Austin Johnson) and a Black Santa (Devon Walker) for their kids.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of elf
Noun
  • Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The story of the changeling that Alice A referenced earlier in the series focused on a family putting a baby into a fire to bring their mother back.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of changeling
Noun
  • There are dragons and trolls in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, along with important swords and a race of long-lived elflike people called the Sithi, but Williams subverts the usual tropes.
    Sarah Jones, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Microsoft’s Tay in 2016 is a prime example of chatbot training gone awry — within 24 hours of its launch, internet trolls manipulated Tay into spouting offensive language.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of troll
Noun
  • The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • That’s in addition to the strange creatures that roam the countryside such as faeries and dragon.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of faerie
Noun
  • Offbeat sports gifts: Interest in The Masters annual garden gnome continues to grow — the only item in the official Masters gift shop to carry a purchase limit.
    Brooks Peck, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The hapless Wallace and his wily hound Gromit cross paths with an errant gnome in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
Definition of gnome
Noun
  • The gulf features in Scottish mythology as the Goddess of Winter, Cailleach (creator, weather deity), a powerful weather kelpie who washes her plait in the waters there, which marks the moment when autumn turns into winter.
    Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
  • In Scottish folklore, the kelpie is a shape-shifting creature that lives underwater and can easily devour humans.
    Catherine Garcia, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of kelpie
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