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fairlings

fairlings is the plural of fairling.

Meaning of fairling

Noun

fairling (plural fairlings)

  1. (archaic) A fairing; a present brought from a fair.
    • "And we shan't have a nice new horse, and lots o' golden money to buy fairlings! And Tess won't look pretty in her best cloze no mo-o-ore!"1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Questions about fairlings

What is fairlings the plural of?
Fairlings is the plural of fairling.

Words near fairlings in the dictionary

  1. Fairlies
  2. fairliest
  3. Fairlight
  4. fairlike
  5. fairling
  6. fairlings
  7. Fairlop
  8. fairly
  9. fairly and squarely
  10. fairmaid
  11. fairmaids

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