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air⋅y-fair⋅y

  [air-ee-fair-ee]
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–adjective
1. Informal.
a. delicate or lovely: an airy-fairy actress; an airy-fairy nightgown.
b. not based on reality or concerned with mundane affairs; unrealistic: airy-fairy ideas about spending a fortune that isn't even his.
2. Slang. effeminate; swishy.
Origin:
perh. orig. in the phrase “airy, fairy Lilian” in Tennyson's poem “Lilian” (1830)
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