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fringe-y

fringe-y is the alternative spelling of fringy.

Meaning of fringy

Adjective

fringy (comparative fringier, superlative fringiest)

  1. (informal) Beyond the mainstream.
    • In another, if fringier, analysis, the show’s focus on the struggles of a contained brigade of human survivors in a post-apocalyptic galaxy is a loose parable for the events in the Book of Mormon: Gaius Baltar (James Callis), the venal scientist turned collaborator turned false prophet turned...2009 March 21, Ginia Bellafante, “Show About the Universe Raises Questions on Earth”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    fringe
  2. Adorned with fringes.

Forms of fringe-y

comparativefringier
superlativefringiest

Questions about fringe-y

What is fringe-y the alternative spelling of?
Fringe-y is the alternative spelling of fringy.

Words near fringe-y in the dictionary

  1. fringe tree
  2. fringe trees
  3. fringe-toed lizard
  4. fringe-toed lizards
  5. fringe-worthy
  6. fringe-y
  7. fringecup
  8. fringecups
  9. fringed
  10. fringed filefish
  11. fringed gecko

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fringe-y (page history and authors); fringy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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