nixie

noun

Definition of nixienext
as in fairy

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Recent Examples of nixie This full function clock created by electronico is crafted from vintage nixie tubes. — Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nixie
  1. fairy
  2. goblin
  3. elf
  4. changeling
  5. little people
  6. troll
  7. faerie
  8. gnome
Noun
  • Like everybody else on the planet, Tom Cruise certainly wouldn't mind having some of that fairy dust rub off on him.
    — Ashley Hume , Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The cost is $35 to $40 and includes all of the supplies needed to turn your child into a butterfly, a Star Wars ranger or a fairy princess.
    — Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of fairy
Noun
  • The magical ring that helped Bilbo escape the goblins had become an instrument of addiction and mass political control.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Two years ago, the Man City phenom appeared in a 90-second spot for the game that saw him get recruited to storm a castle teeming with goblins, dragons and impish skeletons.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of goblin
Noun
  • Guests to The Elf Experience will meet one of Santa’s helpers before entering Papa Elf’s storybook and heading to the North Pole to learn about the life of an elf.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • In the dark comedy Bad Santa, Thornton plays Willie, a miserable, heavy-drinking con man who dresses up as Santa with his elf sidekick (Tony Cox) to rob department stores on Christmas Eve.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of elf
Noun
  • McBride reflects on Queen Mab’s protagonist, a 23-year-old graduate student of Victorian and modernist literature, who struggles to bond with her baby and begins to fear that her child is a changeling.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Is the baby really a baby, or has it been replaced by a changeling?
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of changeling
Noun
  • The little people came out and worked well, but how was this any different from his previous appearances?
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Just as Odysseus and his men defeat the cyclops by putting out his eye, so these little people defeat the doctor by breaking his glasses.
    — Jim Beckerman, USA Today, 22 July 2026
Definition of little people
Noun
  • The Russian security service’s Meliorator tool has been used to create over a thousand profiles of fictitious Americans, primarily on X (formerly Twitter), to spread Kremlin narratives at a fraction of the cost of human troll farms.
    — Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
  • With all that said, the social media team for Texas A&M's football program posted what is perhaps the greatest opportunity for any internet troll with access to Photoshop that has existed in quite some time.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of troll
Noun
  • Maeve learns that the legends she was raised on — stories of faeries, kelpies and seelies — are actually true.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 22 May 2026
  • The plays are set in locations as varied as courts, forests, battlefields, and even the realm of faerie.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of faerie
Noun
  • Accounting is not a very physical job, but tell that to the KPMG gnomes who just spent weeks lugging around gold bars in a secret Swiss cavern.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Forza was trained by Brian Myers, Bear Bronson and Pat Buck and regards herself to be a lawn gnome aficionado.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of gnome

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