Brewer's: Colt-pixy

(A). A pixy, puck, or fairy. To colt-pixy is to take what belongs to the pixies, and is specially applied to the gleaning of apples after the crop has been gathered in; these apples were the privilege of the pixies, and to colt-pixy is to deprive the pixies of their perquisites.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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