What does pisky mean?
Pisky means (West Country) Alternative form of pixie (“supernatural being”)..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈpɪski/ · noun
(West Country) Alternative form of pixie (“supernatural being”)..
1850, Father Poodles, The Piskies, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 88, Chapman & Hall, page 45, "Get out!" said the fat pisky, giving him a kick with his two-inch leg. "Don't you know, you miserable thin thing that a dumbledorry knocked over the other night, that pisky girls are five times as troublesome as mortal ones? and they are bad enough in all conscience, are they not, Master Page, eh?"
1887, M. A. Courtney, Cornish Folk-Lore, The Folk-Lore Journal, Volume V: January—December 1887, The Folklore Society, page 179, The small people go about in parties, but pisky in his habits, at least in West Cornwall, is a solitary little being.
So saying, he stepped to the door and took the path across the meadow, the pisky trotting before him, the folk of the farm following after.
Use pisky when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pisky means (West Country) Alternative form of pixie (“supernatural being”)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1850, Father Poodles, The Piskies, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 88, Chapman & Hall, page 45, "Get out!" said the fat pisky, giving him a kick with his two-inch leg. "Don't you know, you miserable thin thing that a dumbledorry knocked over the other night, that pisky girls are five times as troublesome as mortal ones? and they are bad enough in all conscience, are they not, Master Page, eh?"
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.