fairyling

plural fairylings

1. diminutiverareDiminutive of fairy.

   Alexandroff softened his heart a little to the pretty fairies and fairylings whom he had once despised.

   1885, Philip May, “All the World ’s a Stage”, in Love: The Reward. […], volume I, London: Remington & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16

   2 more examples

   When the Spirit of Christmas determined to call / Lovely legions of playmates to join in the ball, / Then the hollybush fairylings pricked at the legs / Of the Rogers and Lucys and Normans and Megs; / And the mistletoe fairylings fluttered about / On the chance of defeating some little girl’s pout / And persuading her apple-cheeked partner to dare / What the season allowed him to snatch from the fair!

   1910 December, Norman Gale, “The Clock & the Christmas Party”, in The Pall Mall Gazette, London, →OCLC, page 923

   When the fairies leaped into the air to cheer, Ralph leaped convincingly along with them. Then Cecil and his crew bid their farewells, with Fuchsia leaving to tend to the fairylings.

   2011, Eliot Schrefer, chapter XX, in Geek: Fantasy Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, page CXIV

   Synonyms: fairylet