pisky
/ˈpɪski/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of pixie (“supernatural being”).
name
A village, the administrative centre of Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Bobrovytsia urban hromada, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, probably founded somewhen 1648–1657.
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A village, the administrative centre of Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Bobrovytsia urban hromada, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine, probably founded somewhen 1648–1657.
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A village in Dvorichna settlement hromada, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1720.
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A village in Dvorichna settlement hromada, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1720.
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A village, the administrative centre of Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Ivankiv settlement hromada, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1861.
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A village, the administrative centre of Pisky starostynskyi okruh, Ivankiv settlement hromada, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1861.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Meronym: (older, formerly separate village [from 1968]) Hlushets"
- "Meronym: (formerly separate khutir [from a. 1969]) Ivanivka"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: Піски