Definitions for fairy

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fairy fair·y

Spelling: [fair-ee]

IPA: /ˈfɛər i/

Fairy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in fairy (afiry).

Definitions for fairy

noun

1. (in folklore) one of a class of supernatural beings, generally conceived as having a diminutive human form and possessing magical powers with which they intervene in human affairs.
2. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.

adjective

1. of or relating to fairies:
2. of the nature of a fairy; fairylike.
3. fairy green.

Origin of fairy

1250-1300; Middle English faierie Old French: enchantment, fairyland. See fay¹, -ery

Examples for fairy

Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.

But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables.

He was no longer the fairy godmother's devoted and humble factotum.

“I have full faith that this will happen,” Williams says, prepping her fairy dust for a flurry of happy thoughts.

But in Miss Edgeworth's little fable there is no fairy agency.

Actually, rather like Gruber, we feel rather icky about fairy tales.

He told her the family traditions that had been the fairy tales of his childhood.

And if she's Cinderella, can't we have a peep at the fairy godmother?

In reality, prison weddings look nothing like the fairy tales depicted on TV and in bridal magazines.

The fairy godmother romance of it fascinated her girlish mind.