noun A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
noun A cute, petite woman with short hair.
noun An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
noun A butterfly of the genus Melanis.
noun Ellipsis of pixie cut.
noun ↑ Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. IV, 1903.
noun ↑ Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, 1850, p. 298.
noun ↑ William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, 1895.