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pixilated, a. orig. U.S. dial.|ˈpɪksɪˌleɪtɪd|
Also pixelated, pixielated, pixillated, pixylated.
[f. pixie + -lated as in elated, emulated, etc. or var. pixy-led a.]
1. Mildly insane, fey, whimsical; bewildered, confused; intoxicated, tipsy.
1848in Amer. Speech (1941) XVI. 79/2 You'll never find on any trip That he'll be pix-e-lated. 1886E. L. Bynner Agnes Surriage iv. 56 ‘See now wher' we ha' come to wi' yer talk, Job Redden!’ cried Agnes, waking suddenly to their situation. ‘We'll be pixilated 'n' driven on to th' rocks an ye don't wake up.’ 1895Dialect Notes I. 392 Pixilated, dazed, bewildered in the dark. Marblehead, Mass. 1936in Amer. Speech (1941) XVI. 79/2 Lawyer: Now tell me, what does everybody back home think of Longfellow Deeds?.. Jane: They think he's pixilated. Ibid. 80/1 The word pixilated is an early American expression—derived from the word ‘pixies’ meaning elves. They would say, ‘The pixies have got him,’ as we nowadays would say a man is ‘balmy’. 1937N. & Q. 2 Jan. 11/2 As a native of the state from which ‘Mr. Deeds’ is reputed to have come permit me to comment on..‘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’. 1955‘J. R. Macdonald’ Find Victim xxiv. 167 ‘Wasn't he pretty drunk on Sunday?’ ‘He was pixilated all right,’ Jo said. 1957L. Iremonger Ghosts of Versailles viii. 103 Ultimately no explanation of the ‘adventure’ was too fantastic, far-fetched or indeed pixylated for them. 1958Observer 30 Nov. 16/6 Nicely cast, he gave the true tone of pixilated delinquency. 1971Listener 8 Apr. 449/1 Suddenly we were pixilated, we'd fallen in love with the sweetest girl we ever saw. 1975C. Nesbitt Little Love & Good Company xvii. 208 We were both ever so slightly inebriated, no not even that, pixilated, to use the lovely movie euphemism. 1977New Yorker 29 Aug. 28/3 He was known as a coarse creature and a little pixillated.
2. Of an actor: having movements animated by the pixilation technique.
1959News Chronicle 20 Oct. 8/7 The animator..may use conventional comic drawings..or even ‘pixillated’ live actors. |