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fairy

noun

1 fairy

A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers.

synonyms: faerie, faery, fay, sprite.

Roget 979: god, goddess; heathen gods and goddesses; deva; Jupiter, Jove &c.; pantheon.    Allah, Bathala, Brahm, Brahma, Brahma, ... show more

Roget 980: demon, daemon, demonry, demonology; evil genius, fiend, familiar, daeva, devil; bad spirit, unclean spirit; cacodemon, incubus, ... show more

Roget 994: sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist, theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo; fairy etc. ... show more

Dutch: geest, fee, elf
Polish: wróżka

2 fairy

Offensive term for a homosexual man.

synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer.

Dutch: flikker, Hagenaar, holtor, mietje, nicht, poot, reetkever, Utrechtenaar
Polish: pedał, ciota, pedzio


adjective

Roget 515: imagined etc. v.; ben trovato [It]; air drawn, airbuilt.    imagining etc. v., imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Oberon, Titania, air, auntie, banshee, bi-guy, bisexual, brownie, bubble, bull dyke, butch, catamite, chaff, chicken, chip ... show more.

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