pixilated
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From pixy, with ending as in titillated.
Adjective [edit]
pixilated (comparative more pixilated, superlative most pixilated)
- behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
- "During his sanity hearing, things look bleak for Deeds, especially since he initially refuses to defend himself. Cedar even gets Deeds's Mandrake Falls tenants, eccentric elderly sisters Jane and Amy Faulkner (Margaret Seddon and Margaret McWade), to testify that Deeds is "pixilated." That charge falls apart when the two spinsters admit that everyone in town, except themselves, suffers from the same affliction." from Mr. Deed goes to Town.
- whimsical
- drunk
- "The melancholy beauty of Strachur and Inveraray was for me complicated by the agonies of first love; I was well and truly pixilated, and I soaked myself in the works of Niel Munroe and Maurice Walsh..." 1960 Ring of Bright Water. Gavin Maxwell. Longmans p.5.
Usage notes [edit]
- Do not confuse pixilated with pixelated.
