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Definition: Fairy |
FairyAdjective1. Or or pertaining to or resembling (especially in delicacy) a fairy or fairies. Noun1. Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers. 2. Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fairy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Fairy \Fair"y\, noun; plural Fairies. [Old English fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, Old French faerie enchantment, French f['e]er, from Late Latin Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See Fate, and compare to Faya fairy.]. (references) |
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Satire | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always a scene with a beautiful face portrayed as a happy child, or woman. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Fairy of nursery mythology is the personification of Providence. The good ones are called fairies, elves, elle-folks, and fays; the evil ones are urchins, ouphes, ell-maids, and ell-women. "Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You ouphen-heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office." Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5. The dress of the fairies. They wear a red conical cap; a mantle of green cloth, inlaid with wild flowers; green pantaloons, buttoned with bobs of silk; and silver shoon. They carry quivers of adder-slough, and bows made of the ribs of a man buried where "three lairds' lands meet;" their arrows are made of bog-reed, tipped with white flints, and dipped in the dew of hemlock; they ride on steeds whose hoofs would not "dash the dew from the cup of a harebell." (Cromek. "Fairies small, two foot tall, With caps red on their head." Dodsley's Old Plays; Fuimus Troes, i, 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Italian (checca), Quebecois (tapette). (references) |
Slang | A homosexual male. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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A chess variant is any game derived from or related to chess. In practice, a specific chess variant may be similar to chess or radically different. The broad definition of chess variants is so universal, it may include nearly any abstract battle or war game played upon a board.To experts of chess variants, chess, shogi, xiangqi and other chess-related games of great popularity are merely special cases in a theoretically unlimited universe of possible arrangements involving boards, pieces, rules, and so on. To date, several hundred chess variants have been catalogued. With the recent invention in 1998 of a computer program which enables non-experts to quickly design and playtest chess variants using an AI opponent, the total number has been increasing constantly and rapidly. This growth is likely to continue for years.
Handicap variants
- Games played with material disadvantage
- Simultaneous chess
- Blindfold chess
Fantasy variants
Fantasy variants make significant changes to normal chess rules. Other terms for fantasy chess variants include heterodox chess and fairy chess. Some of these variants use pieces not found in orthodox chess, such as Berolina pawns (pawns which move diagonally and capture straight forward); such pieces are collectively called fairy pieces.
- Advanced Chess: the players are allowed to consult a computer. See also Computer Chess
- Alice Chess: played with two boards. A piece moved on one board passes "through the looking glass" onto the other board.
- Atomic Chess: any capture on a square results in an "atomic explosion" which kills (i.e. removes from the game) all pieces in any of the 8 surrounding squares, except for pawns.
- Avalanche Chess: each player moves an opponent's pawn after their move.
- Baroque Chess: (a.k.a. Ultima) the pieces all move like queens but have various capturing methods.
- Bughouse Chess: (a.k.a. Tandem Chess, Siamese Chess) two teams of two players face each other on two boards.
- Capablanca Chess: a 10x8 board.
- Circe Chess: captured pieces are reborn on their starting sqaures.
- Double and Triple Move Chess: each player moves twice or thrice per turn.
- Fischer Random Chess: the placement of the pieces on the 1st and 8th rank is randomized to enhance the adaptability of chess players.
- Grid Chess: the board is overlaid with a grid of lines; for a move to be legal, it must cross at least one of these lines.
- Kriegspiel: each player does not know where the opponent's pieces are but can deduce them with information from a referee.
- Madrasi chess: a piece which is attacked by the same type of piece of the opposite colour is paralysed.
- Omega Chess: a 10x10 board with an extra square dangling off each of the four corners and two new types of chess piece.
- Patrol chess: captures and checks are only possible if the capturing or checking piece is guarded by a friendly piece.
- Progressive Chess: the first player moves once, the second moves twice, the first moves three times, etc.
- Suicide Chess: (a.k.a. Giveaway Chess, Take Me Chess, Losers Chess, Anti-Chess) capturing moves are mandatory and the object is to lose all pieces.
- Three-Dimensional Chess: several variants exist, with the most popular being a version from the television series Star Trek.
Chess-related national games
These games have developed independently from chess by unrelated origins. Nonetheless, they are definable as chess variants. The popularity of these chess variants is often limited to their respective places of origin.
- Shogi - Japan (see also shogi variants)
- Xiangqi - China
External links
- Zillions Of Games | Chess Variants Index
- The Chess Variant Pages
- Symmetrical Chess Collection
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A fairy, or faery, is a whimsical creature from stories and mythology, often portrayed in art and literature as a minuscule humanoid being with wings. This word is derived from the name of a place where they were said to live: Faerie, and fairies are sometimes called fairy-folk. The myth appears commonplace across many diverse cultures and traditions. They have many names and many forms.The Celtic peoples have many references to fairies in their myths and legends, and their nature is described in widely different ways. They are also known as 'the little folk', but this can also refer to leprechauns, goblins, menehune, and other mythical creatures. (full apologies to believers). In Ireland, the fairies were known as the Sidhe, and in Scotland, the Daoine Sith, or a great many variant names.
The height of fairies was not always as consistent as is held to be the case today. Traditionally, faeries were often of human height or taller. One consistent belief amongst the Britons was that the fairy people were weak against cold iron, leading to many of the iron related superstitions that have existed, some of which survive to this day. (For instance, the tradition of placing a horse shoe on one's door.) This belief has prompted some historians and mythological commentators to speculate that the fairies are actually derived from a folk memory of the people that inhabited the island of Great Britain before the Celts arrived. These people would have been armed only with stone, and hence iron would have been the decisive Celtic advantage.
In contemporary belief, fairies are often characterised as fundamentally benevolent in demeanour; this does not, however, hold true in many historical manifestations. The belief in changeling children, for instance, where the fairies would steal away a mortal child and replace it with one of their own, was widespread in mediaeval times; this motif appears in the folk-songs Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin, among others.
William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream deals extensively with the subject of fairy-folk and their interaction with a group of amateur theatrical players. This work details the spell cast by the mischievous fairy Puck (at the behest of the fairy-king Oberon) on Oberon's wife Titania, who falls in love with the first mortal she casts eyes upon, the unfortunate Bottom, whom Puck has transmogrified into having a donkey's head.
William S. Gilbert liked fairies and wrote several plays about them. The best is the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Iolanthe which deals with a conflict between fairies and the House of Lords and, among other issues, touches on some of the practical consequences of fairy/human marriages and cross-breeding in a humorous manner.
Artists such as Brian Froud, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Cicely Mary Barker and Peg Maltby have all created beautiful illustrations of Fairies.
Conversely, the Victorian painter Richard Dadd was responsible for some paintings of fairy-folk with an altogether more sinister and malign nature. The Victorians in Britain were much taken with the notion of fairies in the wake of the Cottingley fairies photographs, and a number of artists turned to painting fairy themes. Another notable Victorian painter of fairies was the artist and illustrator Arthur Rackham.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fairy."
Synonyms: FairySynonyms: faerie (n), faery (n), fag (n), faggot (n), fagot (n), nance (n), pansy (n), poof (n), poove (n), pouf (n), queen (n), queer (n), sprite (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Demon | Vampire, ghoul; afreet, barghest, Loki; ogre, ogress; gnome, gin, jinn, imp, deev, lamia; bogie, bogeyman, bogle; nis, kobold, flibbertigibbet, fairy, brownie, pixy, elf, dwarf, urchin; Puck, Robin Goodfellow; leprechaun, Cluricaune, troll, dwerger, sprite, ouphe, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon, will-o'-the wisp. |
Description | Work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker |
Imagination | Fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic. |
Jupiter | Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, cloud-compeller, Devi, Durga, Kali, oread, the Great Spirit, Ushas; water nymph, wood nymph; Yama, Varuna, Zeus; Vishnu, Siva, Shiva, Krishna, Juggernath, Buddha; Isis, Osiris, Ra; Belus, Bel, Baal, Asteroth; Thor, Odin; Mumbo Jumbo; good genius, tutelary genius; demiurge, familiar; sibyl; fairy, fay; sylph, sylphid; Ariel, peri, nymph, nereid, dryad, seamaid, banshee, benshie, Ormuzd; Oberon, Mab, hamadryad, naiad, mermaid, kelpie, Ondine, nixie, sprite; denizens of the air; pixy; (bad spirit). |
Sorcerer | Noun: sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist, theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo; fairy; lamia, hag. |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Fairy tales are real (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Float away, you fairy! (So I Married An Axe Murder; writing credit: Robbie Fox, Neil Mullarkey, Mike Myers) You think some fairy godmother's gonna show up at midnight and turn me into a lawyer (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein) Sweet Joesph, my son's a fairy. (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner) Well, because it's your damn fairy tale and it's alive and frozen in our kitchen (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Lyrics | I will be your fairy tale (All 4 Love; performing artist: Color Me Badd) Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales and we (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows) And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales (The End of the Innocence; performing artist: Don Henley) It was somewhere in a fairy tale, (Taxi; performing artist: Harry Chapin) And fairy stories held me high on (Matilda Mother; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
Clever | Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Fairy Tale for Adults (1970) Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy (1965) Mean Moe's Fairy Tale (1963) Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (1952) The Good Fairy (1935) | |
Song Titles | Fairy Tale (performing artist: Willie Murphy) Fairy Tales (performing artist: The Rivingtons) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | White tern or fairy tern chick, Gygis alba. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | A white or fairy tern, Gygis alba. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | A fairy tern chick seeking shelter from the sun. Credit: Small World. |  | Fairy Slipper, also called the Calypso Orchid, (Calypso bulbosa) found along Twincheria Creek east of Butte Falls. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
 | Fairy Tern. Credit: Bob Hines. |  | The fairy king and queen drawn by ten beetles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Frog reading to winged fairy or butterfly on toadstool. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | May be our good fairy after all. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fairy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fairy Arch, Mackinac Island, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fairy Dust" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Some digital lenses, in the right lighting, will render the effect of a star filter." | "Elf / fairy" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Elf / fairy." |
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 | Delicate strings creating a fairy tale-like sound-image. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Hans Christian Anderson | Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It is such a pretty charade, my dear, that I can easily guess what fairy brought it. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Nobody never walked on the top of a Fairy. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was once upon a time a fairy, who created meadows and trees expressly for lovers |
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Business | In 1993, the company acquired a controlling stake in the Russian chemical plant Novomoskovskbytkhim in the Tula region which currently produces a number of detergent and hygienic products, including Tide and Myth washing powders, Always women’s protection pads, Fairy dishwashing liquid, Comet cleaning and disinfectant powder, etc. So far, the company has not invested in local production of hair, oral care and other cosmetic lines. (references) | |
Economic History | Denmark | The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75), the philosophical essays of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), and the short stories of Karen Blixen (penname Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962) have earned international recognition, as have the symphonies of Carl Nielsen (1865-1931). Danish applied art and industrial design have won awards for excellence. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fairy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Fairy" is used about 815 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.39% | 810 | 8,608 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 815 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fairy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fairy | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,568 |
| Fairy | Last name | 100 | 85,317 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "fairy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Fae | Female | English | A fairy |
| Fay | Female | English | A fairy |
| Faye | Female | English | A fairy |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "fairy": airy fairy ♦ bad fairy ♦ fairy armadillo ♦ fairy basslet ♦ fairy bell ♦ Fairy bird ♦ Fairy bluebird ♦ fairy chimney ♦ fairy circle ♦ Fairy circles ♦ fairy cup ♦ fairy godmother ♦ fairy lantern ♦ fairy light ♦ Fairy martin ♦ Fairy of the mine ♦ fairy pageant ♦ fairy queen ♦ fairy ring ♦ Fairy ring champignon ♦ Fairy rings ♦ Fairy shrimp ♦ Fairy stone ♦ fairy story ♦ fairy swallow ♦ fairy tale ♦ golden fairy lantern ♦ white fairy lantern. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fairy": fairy-and-goblin, fairy-beast, fairy-carriage, fairy-cycle, Fairy-elves, fairy-fingers, fairy-land, fairy-lights, fairy-like, fairy-lit, fairy-mushroom, fairy-palace, Fairy-queen, fairy-queen', fairy-ring mushroom, fairy-shrimp, fairy-slipper, fairy-stories, fairy-story, fairy-tale, fairy-tales. | |
Ending with "fairy": airy-fairy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fairy | 18,468 | fairy clipart | 215 |
fairy tale | 3,186 | fairy collectible | 173 |
fairy picture | 2,828 | fairy image | 172 |
fairy tattoo | 2,201 | fairy soup | 164 |
flower fairy | 1,555 | fairy name | 163 |
fairy costume | 1,385 | fairy background | 140 |
fairy art | 1,231 | design fairy tattoo | 139 |
fairy figurine | 1,218 | coloring fairy page | 137 |
garden fairy | 1,150 | dragon and fairy | 135 |
fairy doll | 910 | grimms fairy tale | 119 |
fairy poster | 807 | fairy graphic | 115 |
fairy unicorn | 728 | amy brown fairy | 112 |
fairy pic | 586 | fairy ring | 107 |
tooth fairy | 487 | dark fairy | 104 |
bondage fairy | 470 | angel fairy | 101 |
fantasy fairy | 307 | fairy tale wedding | 98 |
fairy wings | 241 | anime fairy | 93 |
fairy wallpaper | 240 | fairy photo | 91 |
fairy tattoo picture | 233 | fairy clip art | 88 |
fairy drawing | 223 | fairy pixies | 88 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fairy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | gees (ghost, intellect, mind, phantom, soul, spirit), fee. (various references) | |
Albanian | zanash, zanë (Faerie, Fay, pixy, spirit, wood nymph), i magjishëm (charmed, magic, magical, witching, wizard), homoseksual (fag, faggot, fagot, gay, homosexual, pansy). (various references) | |
Arabic | كالجن من حيث الرقة, خاص بالجن, جنية (fay, hag, pixie, pixy), جن (demons, go crazy, go haywire, go mad, goblin, jinn, lose one's marbles, mad, take leave of one's senses). (various references) | |
Basque | maitagarri (fay). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самодивски (elfin), самодива (elf, wood nymph), фея (elf, sprite), вълшебен (elfin, magic, magical), ефирен (aerial, airy, ethereal, gossamer), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, expedite, facile, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), приказен (fabled, fabulous, legendary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 魎 (sprite), 神仙 (Fairies), 仙女 . (various references) | |
Czech | víla (nymph, sprite), teplouš (fag, gay). (various references) | |
Danish | staurolit (cross-stone, fairy stone, grenatite, staurolit, staurolite, staurotide), nellikehat (fairy ring champignon), heksering (fairy ring), erosionspille (demoiselle, earth pyramid, earth-pillar, erosion column, fairy chimney, hoodoo column, penitent, rain pillar, sand pinacle), blaavinget pragtdrossel (blue-winged pitta, fairy pitta). (various references) | |
Dutch | feeëriek. (various references) | |
Esperanto | feo, feino, feina, fea. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ævintýr (adventure, fable, fairy tale). (various references) | |
Finnish | keijukainen (elf), haltija (genius, gnome, goblin, guardian spirit, holder, occupant, owner, possessor), haltia. (various references) | |
French | fée. (various references) | |
German | fee (fay), Zauberin (enchantress, magician, sorceress). (various references) | |
Greek | νεράιδα (brownie, mermaid, naiad, nereid, nymph, pixy, sylph, water nymph). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הומוסקסואלי (gay, homosexual, queer), דמיוני (airy fairy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tündér-, tündér (elf, Faerie, Fay, genie, pixie, pixy, sprite, sylph, urchin). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bidadari (angel, beautiful woman, nymph, sylph). (various references) | |
Italian | fata (leprechaun, pixie, pixy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仙人 (hermit, wizard). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フェアリー , せんにゅ (elf, nymph), せんにょ (elf, nymph), せんにん (election, full-time service, hermit, predecessor, seniority, wizard), せんじょ (cutout, cutting off, elf, nymph), ゆきおんな (snow woman), ようせい (application, claim, demand, development, elf, larva, larvae, positivity, premature death, request, sprite, training). (various references) | |
Korean | 요정 (Banshee, Banshie, Fairies). (various references) | |
Manx | ferrish (elf, naughty child; hand-steel). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fe. (various references) | |
Occitan | fada (fay). (various references) | |
Papiamen | fábula (fairy tale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airyfay.(various references) | |
Polish | bajka (fairy tale). (various references) | |
Portuguese | fictício (assumed, bogus, fictitious, make-believe, unreal), produzido por magia (magic, magical), mágico (conjurer, mage, magic, magical, magician, mystical, sorcerer, warlock, witching), encantador (alluring, attractive, bewitching, catchy, charmer, charming, delightful, enchanter, enchanting, fascinating, fine, glamorous, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magic, magical, pleasant, pretty, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, sightly, stunner, sweet, taking, winsome, witching), arrebatador (catchy, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, impetuous, magic, magical, orphic, rapturous, ravishing, ripping, thrilling, vibrant). (various references) | |
Romanian | feeric (enchanting, fairy-like, wonderful), zânã (Fay, goddess, pixy), nãzdrãvan (droll, funny, peerless, rogue, supernatural, wonder-working), imaginar (aerial, fancied, fanciful, imaginary, notional, subjective, unreal, visional, visionary, would be), gnom (elf, gnome, hobgoblin, sprite), elf (elf, Goblin, spirit, sprite). (various references) | |
Russian | фея (pixy, sprite). (various references) | |
Scottish | sìochair (a dwarf, dwarf). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vila (enchantress, peri, villa), homoseksualac (fag, gay, homosexual, pansy, queen, queer), čarobni. (various references) | |
Spanish | hada (sprite). (various references) | |
Swedish | fe (Fay, Peri, sprite), älva (elf). (various references) | |
Thai | นางฟ้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | top (ball, bolt, bowl, cannon, fagot, globe, gun, knob, pellet, pill, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen, rifle, roll), perilere ait, peri gibi, peri (elf, Faerie, faery, Fay, genie, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), nonoş (darling, fruit, gay, poof, pouf, pouffe, queen, queer), homoseksüel erkek (fag, faggot, fagot, pansy, pansy boy), eşcinsel erkek (homophile, poof). (various references) | |
Turkmen | erteki (fairy tale, story). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уявний (fancied, fictitious, imaginary, notional, putative, virtual, visionary), чарівниця (charmer, enchantress, sorceress), чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty), фея (elfin, pixie, pixy, sprite), казковий (dreamlike). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | uyển chuyển như tiên, tiên (pixie, pixy), hư cấu xinh đẹp như tiên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Marasmius oreades, Pitta brachyura nympha. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | faerie. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fairy": fairyism, fairyisms, fairyland, fairylands, fairylike. (additional references) | |
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"Fairy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cairy, Fabry, Faegri, fafir, Faidy, faily, faird, fairey, fairie, fairn, fairo, fairt, fairys, faiyum, fajr, fakiry, faqir, farcy, Farey, fari, farib, Fariq, farity, fary, Fatiya, Faurie, Fayery, feary, Febry, Feery, feirey, feirie, feiry, feiy, fiiry, Firby, firy, fiury, flairi, fuery, fuir, lairy, mairy, nairy, pairy, tairy, wairy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fairy" (pronounced fe"rē) |
| 4 | f e" r ē | ferry. |
| 3 | -e" r ē | airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, Canary, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, Jerry, Kerry, eyrie, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, marry, merry, nary, Parry, Perry, prairie, remarry, scary, sherry, skerry, Tarry, Terry, unwary, vary, very, wary, wherry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-r-y" | |
-1 letter: airy, fair, fiar, fray. | |
-2 letters: air, arf, far, fay, fir, fry, ray, ria, rif, rya, yar. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, ay, fa, if, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aerify, fairly, friary, ramify, rarify, ratify. | |
+2 letters: carnify, clarify, fairway, frailly, frailty, fraying, friarly, gratify, rufiyaa, scarify. | |
+3 letters: craftily, crayfish, draftily, fairways, fairyism, farriery, feracity, fireclay, foraying, frayings, freakily, grayfish, infantry, repacify, stratify, unfairly. | |
+4 letters: aerifying, affraying, argufying, bifilarly, defraying, fairishly, fairyisms, fairyland, fairylike, fiduciary, fireclays, flaringly, formality, formicary, forsythia, fragility, frugality, infirmary, officiary, panfrying, preachify, profanity, raffishly, ramifying, rarefying, rarifying, ratifying, requalify, ruffianly, wayfaring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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