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Variant of fairy

fairy definition

fairy (fer′ē)

noun pl. fairies fair′·ies

  1. an imaginary being usually in human form and supposed to have magic powers, specif. one that is tiny, graceful, and delicate
  2. Slang a male homosexual: term of contempt or derision

Etymology: ME, fairyland, fairy < OFr faerie < fée: see fay

adjective

  1. of fairies
  2. fairylike; graceful; delicate

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When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

Every time a child says'I don't believe in fairies'there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in itöalthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar

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