Continuing on with some of these fun archaic words:
Pixilated - Led astray, as if by pixies; confused, bewildered. Also intoxicated.
Pixilated - An early American expression derived from the word pixies, meaning elves. They would say, "The pixies have got him, " as we nowadays (1930's) would say a man is balmy.
Pixilated - To use the word in the sense of crazy is not correct. A Vermonter would not hesitate to use crazy if that conveyed his meaning. A pixilated man is one whose whimseys are not understood by practical-minded people ... More nearly a synonym of 'whimsical.'
Tree-geese - A name given to barnacles, from their supposed metamorphosis into geese.
Fiddler's green - A name given by sailors to their dancehouses and other places of frolic on shore; sailors' paradise.
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