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dwarves
English
Noun
dwarves
- plural of dwarf
- 1842, George Webbe Dasent (trans.), The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson, page 8
- Then said Þriði: They took also his skull and made thereof heaven and set it up over the earth with four sides, and under each corner they set dwarves: they hight thus Austri, Vestri, Norþri, Suþri.
- 1854, Barclay Pennock (trans.), Rudolph Keyser, The Religion of the Northmen, page 299
- The belief in Dwarves as inhabitants of the interior of the earth and especially of large isolated rocks, was likewise a direct offshoot of the Asa-Mythology.
- 2001, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Well of Darkness, HarperCollinsPublishers, page 139
- When the human magi arrived, Dunner was the dwarf responsible for arbitrating between them and the dwarves as to location and the hundreds of other minor quibbles that seemed likely to turn into major battles, owing to simple misunderstandings of each other's ways.
- 1842, George Webbe Dasent (trans.), The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson, page 8
Anagrams
- swarved
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fairy
English
Alternative forms
- faery
- faerie
- færie (archaic, nonstandard)
- fairie
Etymology
From Middle English fairye, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae + -erie, from Vulgar Latin *F?ta (“goddess of fate”), from Latin f?tum (“fate”). Equivalent to Fate +? -ery.
English from ca. 1300, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" and later "realm of the fays, fairy-land" or "the inhabitants of fairyland as a collective".The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but becomes common only in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????i/
- (General American) enPR: fâr??
- (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA(key): /?f????i/
- (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?f??i/
- Rhymes: -???i
- Homophone: ferry (in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)
Noun
fairy (countable and uncountable, plural fairies)
- (uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
- A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism.
- An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm.
- (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
- 1933, Nathanael West, 'Miss Lonelyhearts' [Miss Lonelyhearts is male.]
- The cripple returned the smile and stuck out his hand. Miss Lonelyhearts clasped it, and they stood this way, smiling and holding hands, until Mrs. Doyle reëntered the room.
"What a sweet pair of fairies you guys are," she said.
The cripple pulled his hand away and made as though to strike his wife.
- The cripple returned the smile and stuck out his hand. Miss Lonelyhearts clasped it, and they stood this way, smiling and holding hands, until Mrs. Doyle reëntered the room.
- 1933, Nathanael West, 'Miss Lonelyhearts' [Miss Lonelyhearts is male.]
- A member of two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.
Synonyms
- (supernatural creature): fay, fey, fae, sprite; see also goblin (hostile)
- (male homosexual): fag (US), faggot (US), poof (UK), queen
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
fairy
- Like a fairy; fanciful, whimsical, delicate.
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