green fairy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Calque of French fée verte.
Meanings
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(colloquial, uncountable) Absinthe liquor.
Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.
2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe, Penguin, →ISBN:
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(New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable) A person who supplies medicinal cannabis products illegally.
She used to buy the majority of her medicines from a local green fairy, but when they were busted, her supply line, like that of many other patients, was cut.
2020, James Borrowdale, Weed: A New Zealand Story, Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN:
Translations (3)
pl zielona wróżka (absinthe liquor — see also absinthe) · de grüne Fee (absinthe liquor — see also absinthe) · fr fée verte (absinthe liquor — see also absinthe)