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   airy-fairy

   /ˌɛːrɪˈfɛːri/

   adjective

   • 1. impractical and foolishly idealistic: informal British "love might seem an airy-fairy, romantic concept"

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   What is the meaning of 'airy-fairy'?

   • airy-fairy definition: not practical or not based on the situation as it really is. Learn more about the meaning of 'airy-fairy' and its translation.

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   What does airy fairy nightgown mean?

   • an airy-fairy nightgown. He'd better get rid of those airy-fairy ideas about spending a fortune that isn't even his. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate. informal.

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   What does fairy mean?

   • Words for the Summer Heat The meaning of FAIRY is a mythical being of folklore and romance usually having diminutive human form and magic powers. How to use fairy in a sentence.

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   Who is airy fairy?

   • Identifying as a Disco Wiccan Chaos MagiciZen - reflecting her various paths and passions - Anwen has been running Airy Fairy since the beginning , through fair weather and fierce. Raised in traditional Sheffield Methodism, she embraced a pantheisitc worldview as a teenager and went on to study paganism in greater depth.

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   How do you describe someone's ideas as airy-fairy?

   • If you describe someone's ideas as airy-fairy, you are critical of them because you think the ideas are vague, impractical, and unrealistic. ...their airy-fairy principles. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 2. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. a. b. 2.

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   Do airy fairy fancies grow old?

   • Nothing of the tootsey-wootsey about her foot, and nothing of the airy-fairy trifle about her slipper. The airy fairy fancies of happy Dreamland never grow old; they, like the glorious stars above us, are always young. There is nothing more beautiful than the airy-fairy soap-bubble with its everchanging colors.

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   If you describe someone's ideas as airy-fairy, you are critical of them because you think the ideas are vague, impractical, and unrealistic. [ British , disapproval ] ...their airy-fairy principles.

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     C19: from Tennyson's poem Lillian (1830), where the central...

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     Synonyms for AIRY-FAIRY in English: fanciful, lightweight,...

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   The meaning of AIRY-FAIRY is delicate, fairylike. How to use airy-fairy in a sentence.

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   Airy-fairy definition: delicate or lovely. See examples of AIRY-FAIRY used in a sentence.

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   adj. 1. informal fanciful and unrealistic: an airy-fairy scheme. 2. delicate to the point of being insubstantial; light. [C19: from Tennyson's poem Lillian (1830), where the central figure is described as "Airy, fairy Lillian"]

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   What does the adjective airy-fairy mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective airy-fairy . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.