Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature. · A cute, petite woman with short hair. · An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome. · A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of dialectal Swedish pysk (“fairy”), though the transmission of a Swedish dialect term to southwest Britain is unexplained; perhaps Puck (“Robin Goodfellow”) + -sy; see Wikipedia.
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- Derivation mentionpysksv
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