air·y-fair·y also airy fairy (âr??-fâr??)Chiefly British Slang adj. Insubstantial or impractical: “You are talking about some airy fairy concept which will never come in my lifetime” (Margaret Thatcher).American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.airy-fairy (???r??f??r?) adj1. informal fanciful and unrealistic: an airy-fairy scheme. 2. delicate to the point of being insubstantial; light[C19: from Tennyson’s poem Lillian (1830), where the central figure is described as “Airy, fairy Lillian”]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014air?y-fair?y adj. 1. delicate or lovely. 2. unrealistic: airy-fairy ideas about winning the sweepstakes. [1830] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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air·y-fair·y also airy fairy (âr??-fâr??)Chiefly British Slang adj. Insubstantial or impractical: “You are talking about some airy fairy concept which will never come in my lifetime” (Margaret Thatcher).American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.airy-fairy (???r??f??r?) adj1. informal fanciful and unrealistic: an airy-fairy scheme. 2. delicate to the point of being insubstantial; light[C19: from Tennyson’s poem Lillian (1830), where the central figure is described as “Airy, fairy Lillian”]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014air?y-fair?y adj. 1. delicate or lovely. 2. unrealistic: airy-fairy ideas about winning the sweepstakes. [1830] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.