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fairy snuff

UK/ˌfɛəɹɪˈsnʌf/

fairy snuff interjection: fair enough.

Interjection

  1. Fair enough.
    • An impeccable Cockney rhyme, though it may offend purists of speech, is burnt cinders ‘windows’; whilst fairy snuff ‘fair enough’ is certainly a true rhyme despite its extra s.1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang, Batsford, →ISBN, page 99, →ISBN

Synonyms of fairy snuff

Origin of fairy snuff

A humorous alteration due to the homeophony of fair enough and fairy snuff.

Questions about fairy snuff

What does fairy snuff mean?
Fairy snuff means fair enough.
What part of speech is fairy snuff?
Fairy snuff is an interjection.
How do you pronounce fairy snuff?
Fairy snuff is pronounced /ˌfɛəɹɪˈsnʌf/ (UK).

Words near fairy snuff in the dictionary

  1. fairy ring fungus
  2. fairy ring mushroom
  3. fairy rings
  4. fairy shrimp
  5. fairy shrimps
  6. fairy snuff
  7. fairy stone
  8. fairy stones
  9. fairy stories
  10. fairy story
  11. fairy swallow

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