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airy-fairy adjective delicate, fanciful; insubstantial, trivial UK, 1869- [T]his was just the airy-fairy, “don’t we all live in a wonderful white-bread Christian world” stuff. The hard-core material was, appropriately, on the higher shelves. — Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World, p. 251, 1998
- Moguls in Hofstadter’s day considered intellectualism vaguely feminine and airy-fairy. — David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise, p. 114, 2000
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