Pixie and Devilish

noun

• Folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
  • synonyms: elf, hob, gremlin, pixy, brownie, imp
• Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.
  • synonyms: pyxie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata

• (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
• (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.

adjective

• Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
  • usage: "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
  • synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
• Playful in an appealingly bold way.
  • usage: "a roguish grin"
  • synonyms: rascally, roguish

adverb

• In a playfully devilish manner.
  • usage: "the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever"
  • synonyms: devilishly

• (a.) Extreme; excessive.
• (a.) Resembling, characteristic of or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.