festie

plural festies

1. slangA festival.

   Spaces are saved for women who need to drive into town to pick up additional supplies, first time festival-goers (“festie virgins”) are welcomed and brought into the fold […]

   1998, Mary Alice Gebhart, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Building a Lesbian Community

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   Is it just me, or is there an absolute glut of rock festivals these days? Now, back in the days when I was a gadabout festie-masher, you had your basic four festivals to choose from.

   2004, New Statesman

   Have you ever been to a festival before? […] Well this is similar to that, but people at this festie are a little less concerned with consciousness and that whole acoustic guitar thing than they are with getting off their heads.

   2014, Radmer Lenasch, Paper Samurai, page 54

2. slangA festival attendee.

   There was this policy that happened – there was this discussion that happened about – 'You know, you have to talk nicer to people in front of the festies, because that's just not polite. And so you have to be nice and wave at each other. […]

   2008, Laurie J. Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: An Amazon Matrix of Meaning