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pix¹
- /pɪks/
Sounds like picks, pics, pyx · Rhymes with -ɪks
Where it comes from
Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.
noun pic
- plural of pic (“picture”) Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.
- Motion pictures; movies. Mutual has started a campaign to substitute a word for the term “Movies.” It contemplates the use of the word “Pix” and thinks this would be welcomed as a short word for the headline writer and amply descriptive.
pix²
- /pɪks/
Sounds like picks, pics, pyx · Rhymes with -ɪks
Where it comes from
A variant of pyx.
noun pixes
- Obsolete spelling of pyx [F]oraſmuche as we have often and many tymes, to our inwarde regrete and diſpleaſure, ſeen at oure Jen, in diverſe and many Churches of our Realme, the holie Sacrament of the Aulter kept in ful simple and inhoneſt Pixes, ſpecially Pixes of copre and tymbre: we have appointed and commaunded the Treſo
verb pixes · pixing · pixed
- Obsolete spelling of pyx The bread that was left of this consecration or breaking, which was so holy as the other, was neither housed nor churched, boxed nor pixed, but remained there still to the householders, to be eaten of whomsoever lusted.
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title = {pix},
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