fairylet

plural fairylets

1. diminutiverareDiminutive of fairy.

   “Why, hello, my little fairylets!” said the hedgehog. “How about a hug?”

   2025, Kate Korsh, chapter 8, in When Fairies Go Too Far (Oona Bramblegoop’s Sideways Magic; 4), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 76

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   She came with the young fairylets, / She said, an attendant to choose,— / A magnificent fellow, fit / To wear her footman’s shoes.

   1874, Beldazzle [pseudonym], “Servant-Hunting”, in Beldazzle’s Bachelor “Studies”, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] W[ashington] Carleton & Co., […] London: S[ampson] Low, Son & Co., →OCLC, page 60

   Well, that story satisfied old O’Herrin’s curiosity. But he wanted to know the fairy’s telephone number, and when Zobedee fetched her fairylets in by burning a lot of hair, while the grand vizier and the boss eunuch held their noses, he asked her to change the spaniels back into women.

   1902, J[ames] W[infield] Scott, “The Porter and the Ladies of Bagdad”, in Jack Hardin’s Rendering of the Arabian Nights: Being a New Translation in Up-to-Date English […], Boston, Mass.: Herbert B. Turner & Co., published April 1903, →OCLC, page 130

   An enormous clothes tree stood in the middle where the lawn once was. As always, its vast branches sagged heavily with wet washing – well, what would you expect with five fairylets?

   2005, Debra J Edwards, chapter 6, in Aggie Lichen; Pilp Collector, [Great Britain]: PurpleRay Publishing, published December 2008, →ISBN, page 61

   Synonyms: fairyling