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单词 airy-fairy
释义 airy-fairy
 /air"ee fair"ee/,  adj.  
  1.  Informal.  
   a. delicate or lovely: an airy-fairy actress; an airy-fairy nightgown.
   b. not based on reality or concerned with mundane affairs; unrealistic: airy-fairy ideas about spending a fortune that isn't even his.
  2.  Slang.   effeminate; swishy.
 [perh. orig. in the phrase "airy, fairy Lilian" in Tennyson's poem "Lilian" (1830)]
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