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fairily

fairily adverb: in the manner of a fairy.

Adverb

fairily (comparative more fairily, superlative most fairily)

  1. (archaic, poetic) In the manner of a fairy.
    • At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain, new stuff'd, in youth, with triumphs gay / Of old romance.1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza V, page 85

Forms of fairily

comparativemore fairily
superlativemost fairily

Origin of fairily

From fairy + -ly.

Questions about fairily

What does fairily mean?
Fairily means in the manner of a fairy.
What part of speech is fairily?
Fairily is an adverb.

Words near fairily in the dictionary

  1. fairie
  2. fairies
  3. fairies' butter
  4. fairies' horse
  5. fairies' horses
  6. fairily
  7. fairing
  8. fairing off
  9. fairing up
  10. fairings
  11. fairish

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