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Etymology

Etymology tree English fairy Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English fairysome From fairy + -some.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of a fairy.
   • [...] and “Folks that hed no call to go to bed, not nights, they slep' the hull time”—had fallen utterly in love with “that fairysome cur'osity that you go and call Viffer;” and bowed to the earth before her, for two reasons: one, that this “mite of a lady” had once appeared in one of Sal.'s solitary haunts, where she lay on the ground in sore anguish [...] 1872, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, volume 9:
   • Mr. Crane suggests that motor cars might be made "more fairysome," but would that not mean the introduction of gaudy and meretricious adornments which would detract from the sense of power, speed, and strength which, as he admits, is imparted by the plain, unadorned and clean-lined car adopted by our makers at the present day. 1907, Stanley Spooner, The Auto: The Motorist's Pictorial - Volume 12:

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