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fairy folk

fairy folk noun: small mythical humanlike creatures with magical powers and fair skin who live in remote, often forested locations and are rarely seen.

Noun

fairy folk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Small mythical humanlike creatures with magical powers and fair skin who live in remote, often forested locations and are rarely seen.
    • Two lads were ploughing up a field, in the middle of which was an old thorn-tree, a trysting-place of the Fairy-folk.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 162
    • As us fairy folk sweep from the hill
      Never caught us and never will
      Pulling roses and daffodils
      Mayhem in the high degree.1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull
    Synonyms:
    faefolk

Synonyms of fairy folk

Questions about fairy folk

What does fairy folk mean?
Fairy folk means small mythical humanlike creatures with magical powers and fair skin who live in remote, often forested locations and are rarely seen.
What part of speech is fairy folk?
Fairy folk is a noun.

Words near fairy folk in the dictionary

  1. fairy dusters
  2. fairy fire
  3. fairy floss
  4. fairy flycatcher
  5. fairy flycatchers
  6. fairy folk
  7. fairy fort
  8. fairy forts
  9. fairy garden
  10. fairy gardens
  11. fairy gerygone

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