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   fairy

   /ˈfɛːri/

   noun

   • 1. a small imaginary being of human form that has magical powers, especially a female one: "she believed she had had fairies at the bottom of her garden"
   • 2. a gay man. offensive
   • ▪ a man who is seen as unmasculine, timid, or affected.
   • 3. a Central and South American hummingbird with a green back and long tail.

   Word Origin Middle English (denoting fairyland, or fairies collectively): from Old French faerie, from fae, ‘a fairy’, from Latin fata ‘the Fates’, plural of fatum (see fate). Compare with fay.

   Derivatives

   • 1. fairylike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • F

     4

   • A

     1

   • I

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

     4

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