Meanings
- pluralplural onlySmall mythical humanlike creatures with magical powers and fair skin who live in remote, often forested locations and are rarely seen.
Two lads were ploughing up a field, in the middle of which was an old thorn-tree, a trysting-place of the Fairy-folk.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 1621 more example
As us fairy folk sweep from the hill Never caught us and never will Pulling roses and daffodils Mayhem in the high degree.
1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro TullSynonyms: faefolk
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSmall mythical humanlike creatures with magical powers and fair skin who live in remote, often forested locations and are rarely seen.
Translations
Māori māeroero, tūrehu
- māeroeromythical beings
- tūrehumythical beings
- heketoromythical beings
- karitehemythical beings
- kōrakorakomythical beings
- patupaiarehemythical beings
- tahurangimythical beings
Welsh y Tylwyth Teg
- y Tylwyth Tegmythical beings
Cite this entry
fairy folk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fairy%20folk
“fairy folk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fairy%20folk. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fairy folk,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fairy%20folk.
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