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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hobgoblin: now explained as “a spirit or fairy in the shape of a horse, which neighs and thus misleads horses into bogs”; but this is a sophistication due to popular etymology, the word being a perversion of colepixy, the will o' the wisp. See colepixy.
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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hernesheir Century Dictionary's quoted definition of colt-pixy is a nearly verbatim rendering of Grose's 1787 listing of the word. Cf. colepixy
Why, colt-pixy even finds itself at Answers.com. May 3, 2011