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
  • Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.
    — Sen. Dan Hall, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
  • This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
    — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Definition of goblin
Noun
  • Kelsey recently began selling her wreath attachments — such as big-eyed felt bunnies for Easter, and elves and snowmen for Christmas — in her Etsy store, Peppermint Sue’s Perfections.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Past racial tension between elves and humans is all but ignored in the plot.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of elf
Noun
  • What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
    — Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of changeling
Noun
  • Created via motion-capture performances, puppets and voice acting, these haphazard CGI troll wannabes seem supremely out of place in a movie full of humans and one chatty mirror.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The next advantage logically follows from the previous one—minimizing the risks of theft and exhausting litigation with competitors and IP infringers (for example, pirates or patent trolls), which could arise in the event of an incomplete legislative framework.
    — Olena Orliuk, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
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
  • First, advent calendars; then gnomes; then the tree; and then Christmas itself.
    — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Sign up for Target Circle More:Target has up to 65% off artificial Christmas trees, gnome decor, ornaments and more 9.
    — Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of gnome
Noun
  • Zinna, a kelpie mix, was found in her crate inside the home.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Arakawa had brought the kelpie mix named Zinna home from a veterinary hospital on Feb. 9 after a procedure, Mendoza said.
    — Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of kelpie
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