Fairy
noun
A small imaginary creature with magic powers, often represented in stories as human in form but with tiny size, wings and a joyful nature.
Children are usually fond of stories about fairies and magic.
Often appears as...
- fairy tale
- fairy godmother
noun
A male who acts in a very feminine way or is homosexual.
Some people use the term 'fairy' as a derogatory term for homosexuals.
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A small imaginary creature with magic powers, often represented in stories as human in form but with tiny size, wings and a joyful nature.
Children are usually fond of stories about fairies and magic.
Often appears as...
- fairy tale
- fairy godmother
noun
A male who acts in a very feminine way or is homosexual.
Some people use the term 'fairy' as a derogatory term for homosexuals.
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Fantasy Genre
Fairy is often used in literature and movies to create a sense of wonder and magic, especially in fantasy.
The fairy glided over the mystical forest, sprinkling pixie dust.
Pro Tip 2/3Childhood Innocence
Fairy characters are common in children's stories, symbolizing innocence and the magic of childhood.
Every night, she would fall asleep reading her favorite fairy adventures.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Variations
Fairy depictions vary across cultures; some are benevolent, while others are tricksters or malevolent.
In our folklore, the forest fairy is a guardian of nature, not a playful spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Fantasy Genre
Fairy is often used in literature and movies to create a sense of wonder and magic, especially in fantasy.
The fairy glided over the mystical forest, sprinkling pixie dust.
Pro Tip 2/3Childhood Innocence
Fairy characters are common in children's stories, symbolizing innocence and the magic of childhood.
Every night, she would fall asleep reading her favorite fairy adventures.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Variations
Fairy depictions vary across cultures; some are benevolent, while others are tricksters or malevolent.
In our folklore, the forest fairy is a guardian of nature, not a playful spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Fantasy Genre
Fairy is often used in literature and movies to create a sense of wonder and magic, especially in fantasy.
The fairy glided over the mystical forest, sprinkling pixie dust.
Pro Tip 2/3Childhood Innocence
Fairy characters are common in children's stories, symbolizing innocence and the magic of childhood.
Every night, she would fall asleep reading her favorite fairy adventures.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Variations
Fairy depictions vary across cultures; some are benevolent, while others are tricksters or malevolent.
In our folklore, the forest fairy is a guardian of nature, not a playful spirit.
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Lemon Andersen performs...
of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know that it was his father who gave it to my mother, and that's a double entendre. I'm so experienced that when you went to the Fell School and all the rich little fairy boys decided to sponsor a child in it, that was me, but kicked me out when I was caught
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Why you should make...
Because I finished making this toothbrush helmet three years ago and after I finished making it, I went into my living room and I put up a camera, and I filmed a seven-second clip of it working. And by now, this is a pretty standard modern-day fairy tale of girl posting on the internet,
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Militant atheism PIPE...
He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non-existence. So, my friend is strictly agnostic about the tooth fairy,
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Why should you read Kurt...
which he insisted were just as interesting as the shapes of pots or spearheads. To find the shape, he graphed the main character’s fortune from the beginning to the end of a story. The zany curves he generated revealed common types of fairy tales and myths
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Your elusive creative...
who follow people around rubbing fairy juice on their projects and stuff. I'm not, probably, going to bring you all along with me on this. But the question that I kind of want to pose is -- you know, why not? Why not think about it this way?
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Magical houses, made of...
When I was nine years old, my mom asked me what I would want my house to look like, and I drew this fairy mushroom. And then she actually built it. I don't think I realized this was so unusual at the time, and maybe I still haven't,
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Sir David Attenborough...
of years ago there were many more types of lima than there are found today including a monster that was almost the size of a donkey which since it presumably had a long fairy tale must have been a really strange beast
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Growing Up Transgender...
is wearing thank you're not god ball you're not going to the ball for the longest time i kind of had this fantasy that i'd escaped to that like a fairy godmother would come and you know turn me into a girl and make
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Penguins Huddle To Keep...
icy footholds are irrelevant of course to birds that fly storm petrols and fairy prions can simply rest on the unremitting southern winds
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“Boom Boom”, “Life is...
is no fairy you should know that life is real life is real life is real
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Lemon Andersen performs...
of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know that it was his father who gave it to my mother, and that's a double entendre. I'm so experienced that when you went to the Fell School and all the rich little fairy boys decided to sponsor a child in it, that was me, but kicked me out when I was caught
Video examples
Why you should make...
Because I finished making this toothbrush helmet three years ago and after I finished making it, I went into my living room and I put up a camera, and I filmed a seven-second clip of it working. And by now, this is a pretty standard modern-day fairy tale of girl posting on the internet,
Video examples
Militant atheism PIPE...
He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non-existence. So, my friend is strictly agnostic about the tooth fairy,
Video examples
Why should you read Kurt...
which he insisted were just as interesting as the shapes of pots or spearheads. To find the shape, he graphed the main character’s fortune from the beginning to the end of a story. The zany curves he generated revealed common types of fairy tales and myths
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
who follow people around rubbing fairy juice on their projects and stuff. I'm not, probably, going to bring you all along with me on this. But the question that I kind of want to pose is -- you know, why not? Why not think about it this way?
Video examples
Magical houses, made of...
When I was nine years old, my mom asked me what I would want my house to look like, and I drew this fairy mushroom. And then she actually built it. I don't think I realized this was so unusual at the time, and maybe I still haven't,
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
of years ago there were many more types of lima than there are found today including a monster that was almost the size of a donkey which since it presumably had a long fairy tale must have been a really strange beast
Video examples
Growing Up Transgender...
is wearing thank you're not god ball you're not going to the ball for the longest time i kind of had this fantasy that i'd escaped to that like a fairy godmother would come and you know turn me into a girl and make
Video examples
Penguins Huddle To Keep...
icy footholds are irrelevant of course to birds that fly storm petrols and fairy prions can simply rest on the unremitting southern winds
Video examples
“Boom Boom”, “Life is...
is no fairy you should know that life is real life is real life is real
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Quote examples
Leonardo DiCaprio
American Actor
When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.
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Neil Gaiman
British Author
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.
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Jocko Willink
American
There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.
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Selena Gomez
American Actress
I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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Kim Kardashian
American Celebrity
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
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Jonathan Powell
British Diplomat
A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.
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Paris Hilton
American Celebrity
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Danish Author
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Quote examples
Leonardo DiCaprio
American Actor
When I started acting, I didn't think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, 'Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.' I didn't understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college.
Quote examples
Neil Gaiman
British Author
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.
Quote examples
Jocko Willink
American
There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.
Quote examples
Selena Gomez
American Actress
I've learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.
Quote examples
William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Quote examples
Douglas Adams
English Writer
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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Kim Kardashian
American Celebrity
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
Quote examples
Jonathan Powell
British Diplomat
A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.
Quote examples
Paris Hilton
American Celebrity
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Quote examples
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish Author
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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