pixie

noun5

1. •
   A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.

   • Then she saw pixies — dozens and dozens of pixies — dancing and singing. — 2005
2. •
   Ellipsis of pixie cut.

   • “Have you thought about a haircut? A pixie or a bob?” — 2016
3. •
   (slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.

   • Then a pixie appears in the visitor window, round face, big brown eyes framed in thick liner, a tiny turned-up nose, red lips, inch-long blue-black hair so popular with the avant-garde. — 2006
4. •
   An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.
5. •
   A butterfly of the genus Melanis.