Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mischievous fairy; the will o' the wisp, regarded as a fairy.
- To beat down (apples).
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘colepixy’.
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Gracious. May 3, 2011
Prolagus ... May 3, 2011
yarb Ha! Another classic Century Dictionary moment. May 3, 2011
sionnach The second Century definition given for this word is puzzling, to say the least.
Furthermore, the lack of images on Flickr is disappointing. May 3, 2011
hernesheir Cf. colt-pixy May 3, 2011