英语词汇“airy、fairy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

airy-fairy

释义

airy-fairy, a. colloq.|ˈɛərɪˈfɛərɪ|
[After Tennyson's ‘airy, fairy Lilian’ (Lilian, 1830).]
1. Delicate or light as a fairy. Also as n.
1869W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads, Only a Dancing Girl iii, No airy fairy she, As she hangs in arsenic green, From a highly impossible tree, In a highly impossible scene.1898Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 8/1 The low-necked airy-fairy ladies' ball gown.1907Ibid. 30 Mar. 16/1 To find partners for the airy-fairy creatures.
2. Fanciful (in disparaging sense).
1920D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl iv. 55 He had already an airy-fairy kind of knowledge of the whole affair.1957F. Hoyle Black Cloud iv. 85, I am concerned with facts not with motives, suspicions, and airy-fairy nothingness.1966Listener 8 Sept. 336/2 Favoured by..some men of the market place, whose ideas I believe to be airy-fairy.

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