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fringey

fringey 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 fringey

comparativefringier
superlativefringiest

Questions about fringey

What is fringey the alternative spelling of?
Fringey is the alternative spelling of fringy.

Words near fringey in the dictionary

  1. fringetail
  2. fringetails
  3. fringeth
  4. Fringeverse
  5. fringeworthy
  6. fringey
  7. fringie
  8. fringier
  9. fringies
  10. fringiest
  11. fringillaceous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fringey (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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