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pixy-led en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having been led astray by pixies, fairies, or similar supernatural beings.
   • “Where have you been?” she said. “I’ve a-bin pixy-led,” says he, and then he told her how the pixies had held him fast for five hours, and that at last he crawled away, not knowing where he was going, and tumbling head over heels into the stream. 1895, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, The Evil Eye: An Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition, London: John Murray, page 434:
   • The being Pixy-led is a thing very apt to befall worthy yeomen returning at night from fair or market, especially if they sat long at the market-table[.] 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 300:
2. (not-comparable) Bewildered or led astray, as if by pixies.

pixy-led en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of pixy-lead
   form of pixy-lead