| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In the manner of a fairy.[Websters]
2. In a fabulous, fantastic or fictional manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a fine, sensitive or tenuous manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a weak, insubstantial or ticklish manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In an effeminate or girlish manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a graceful, glamorous or delightful manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In an unreal or dreamlike manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective fairy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (fairy) | 1. Of or pertaining to fairies.[Websters]. 2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money.[Websters]. 3. Being magical, enchanting, glamorous, ravishing or fascinating.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being queer or homosexual.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being fabulous or fabled.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being delicate, fine, dainty, exquisite or tender.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being ethereal or airy.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being effeminate, sissy, girlish or womanish.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being charming, lovely or graceful.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Adjective base of the adverb fairily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FAIRILY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fairy
| Domain | Definition | ||
| 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 | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A fay; an imaginary being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form, dance in meadows, steal infants and play a variety of pranks. [See Elf and Demon.]. | 2: [Noun] An enchantress. Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, wandering about in the drifts and chambers, always employed in cutting ore, turning the windlass, &c., yet effecting nothing. The Germans believe in two species; one fierce and malevolent; the other gentle. [See Cobalt.] Fairy ring or circle, a phenomenon observed in fields, vulgarly supposed to be caused by fairies in their dances. This circle is of two kinds; one about seven yards in diameter, containing a round bare path, a foot broad, with green grass in the middle; the other of different size, encompassed with grass.. | 3: [Adjective] Belonging to fairies; as fairy land. Source: Webster's 1828 American 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 .... | ||
| Geography | Fairy is geographically located in Canada. Its features include a lake (a large inland body of standing water). Its geographic coordinates are 51.666667 degrees North latitude and 92.916667 degrees West longitude. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "Fairies small, two foot tall, 2: "Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, 3: Attend your office." 4: Dodsley's Old Plays; Fuimus Troes, i, 5. 5: 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. 6: Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5. 7: 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. 8: With caps red on their head." 9: You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, 10: You ouphen-heirs of fixed destiny,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Italian (checca), Quebecois (tapette). (references) | ||
| Slang | A homosexual male. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (derogatory slang) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate. (references) | 2: [Noun] (paganism) A nature spirit revered in modern Paganism. (references) | 3: [Noun] A mythical being who had magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as small and spritely with gauze-like wings; A sprite. (references) | 4: [Noun] Land of the fae, state of enchantment, associated with fays (as in fairy gold, fairy queen). (references) |
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Common Expressions: fairy
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Asian Fairy Bluebird | The Asian Fairy Bluebird (Irena puella) is a medium-sized, arboreal passerine bird. (references) | ||
| Bad fairy | A fairy that tends to cause harm. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bottle Fairy | Bottle Fairy (瓶詰妖精 Binzume Yōsei) is an anime series about four fairies who discover the secrets of the world inside their little house. The humour depends on word-play and randomness as the Bottle Fairies misunderstand what exactly things are supposed to mean. Each episode takes place in a different month, when the fairies learn about what is to be done that month by japanese tradition and modern japanese practices - it is often hailed as being a good anime as it helps English people understand what's happening in anime and manga during certain festivals. The bottle fairies are often identified by the colours of their eyes. (references) | ||
| Disney's Fairy Tale Wedding Pavilion | This is not the only place at Walt Disney World Resort where guests can be married. (references) | ||
| Fairy (detergent) | Fairy is a dish-washing detergent produced by Procter & Gamble. (references) | ||
| Fairy armadillo | Very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fairy bell | Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fairy bird | (Zo["o]l.), the Euoropean little tern (Sterna minuta); -- called also sea swallow , and hooded tern . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fairy bluebird | 1: (Zo["o]l.) See under Bluebird . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Fairy bread | Fairy bread is white bread lightly spread with margarine or butter, and then sprinkled with either sugar or more commonly Hundreds and Thousands (also known as sprinkles, a Masterfoods product consisting of small balls of coloured sugar intended to decorate cakes). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fairy
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fairy basslet | Biology & Biotechnology | A tropical fish. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fairy chimney | Geography | Tall, conical column of unconsolidated to semiconsolidated earth materials, e. g. clay, till or landslide debris, produced by differential erosion in a region of sporadic heavy rainfall, as in a badland or high alpine valley, and usually capped by a flat, hard boulder that shielded the underlying softer material from erosion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fairy Darts | Literature | 1: Flint arrow-heads, supposed at one time to have been thrown by fairies in their pranks. 2: Little knolls of grass, like mole-hills, said in the "good old times" to be the homes of fairies. 3: Or Mage, such as Urganda, the guardian of Amadigi; the fair Oriana; Silvana, the guardian of Alidoro; Lucina, the protectress of Alidoro and his lady-love, the maiden-warrior, Mirinda; Eufrosina, the sister of Lucina; Argea, the protectress of Floridante, and Filide'a, sister of Ardea; all in Tasso's Amadigi. 4: The land where fairies are supposed to dwell; dreamland; a place of great delight and happiness. 5: "The fairest of fairy lands - the land of home." 6: Jean Ingelow: The Letter, part i. stanza 31. 7: Or ~~~Fairy Stones. 8: Fairy Stones. Fossil sea-urchins (echini), said to be made by the fairies. 9: Found money. Said to be placed by some good fairy at the spot where it was picked up. "Fairy money" is apt to be transformed into leaves. 10: Milton: Comus, 447-8. 11: A malevolent being supposed to live in mines, busying itself with cutting ore, turning the windlass, etc., and yet effecting nothing. (See Gnome.) 12: "No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, 13: Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity." 14: By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, 15: Circles of rank or withered grass, often seen in lawns, meadows, and grass-plots. Said to be produced by the fairies dancing on the spot. In sober truth, these rings are simply an agaric or fungus below the surface, which has seeded in a circular range, as many plants do. Where the ring is brown and almost bare, the "spawn" is of a greyish-white colour. The grass dies because the spawn envelops the roots so as to prevent their absorbing moisture; but where the grass is rank the "spawn" is dead, and serves as manure to the young grass. 16: "You demi-puppets, that 17: Whereof the ewe not bites." 18: Shakespeare: Tempest, v. 1. 19: The phosphoric light from decaying wood, fish, and other substances. Thought at one time to be lights prepared for the fairies at their revels. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Fairy stone | Chemistry | Brown to black orthorhombic mineral. Twinned crystals often resemble a cross. It is a common constituent in rocks such as mica schists and gneisses that have undergone medium-grade metamorphism. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fairy stone | Mining | A. A cruciform-twinned crystal of staurolite, used as a curio stone without fashioning for adornment. The term is also applied as a syn. of staurolite, and esp. to the variety occurring in the form of a twinned crystal. See also:staurolite b. Any of various odd or fantastically shaped calcareous or ferruginous concretions formed in alluvial clays c. A fossil sea urchin. (references) | |
| Fairy tale | Art | A fanciful story, written for or told to children, usually containing at least one supernatural element (magic, dragons, elves, ghosts, hobgoblins, witches, etc.) affecting adults and children, animals, and/or inanimate objects. Most fairy tales are based on the traditional folklore of a specific culture. Some are didactic (example: The Three Little Pigs). Often published in illustrated collections, fairy tales are usually shelved in the children's room of a public library or in the curriculum room of an academic library. Compare with folktale. (references) | |
| Finger fairy | Slang | Noun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: There are 6 fairies in the ballet, one overuses her hands when she talks. Context: Used to refer to a character in the ballet piece. Social Source: Ballet Dancers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Kepler's Fairy | Literature | The fairy which guides the planets. Kepler said that each planet was guided in its elliptical orbit by a resident angel. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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