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fairmaids

fairmaids is the plural of fairmaid.

Meaning of fairmaid

Noun (1)

fairmaid (plural fairmaids)

  1. A mermaid from a blackwater creek or river.
    • I go down to the punt-trench and I beg the water people. Help me, I say. I throw eggs — fresh eggs — in the black water. It was to feed the fairmaids.1978, Angus Richmond, A Kind of Living, page 13
  2. (often) Synonym of snowdrop.
    • Fairmaid is a soft pink flower, very pleasing.1903, William Robinson, The Garden
    Synonyms:
    snowdrop

Noun (2)

fairmaid (plural fairmaids)

  1. A smoked or salted pilchard.
    • The low prices which fish have been bringing of late years is a serious matter for those who prosecute the fisheries to look in the face. Has the taste for fairmaids died out with the Italians, or are they being supplied from other countries ?1887, The Journal of the National Fish Culture Association

Questions about fairmaids

What is fairmaids the plural of?
Fairmaids is the plural of fairmaid.

Words near fairmaids in the dictionary

  1. fairlings
  2. Fairlop
  3. fairly
  4. fairly and squarely
  5. fairmaid
  6. fairmaids
  7. Fairman
  8. Fairmans
  9. Fairmead
  10. Fairmile
  11. fairminded

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