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pixie
noun- a male homosexual US
The term was enshrined in US popular/political culture during the McCarthy hearings in April, 1954. Joseph Welch, the lawyer for the US Army, demanded to know the origins of a doctored photograph, asking if it had come from a “pixie”, alluding to a suspected homosexual relationship involving Roy Cohn, a member of McCarthy’s staff. Senator McCarthy asked Mr Welch to define the term, which he happily did: “I should say, Mr Senator, that a pixie is a close relative of a fairy”. - — G. Legman, The Language of Homsexuality, p. 1174, 1941
- “He’s a pixie, isn’t he? He wouldn’t know what to do with a woman, let alone rape one!” — Bernard Cornwell, Gallow’s Thief, p. 101, 2003
- a frequent user of marijuana UK
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 119, 1983
- an amphetamine tablet US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, August 1994
- hair that has been chemically straightened US
- — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 75, 1972
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