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How to spell fairy
Fairy is spelled F-A-I-R-Y.
What it means: A small magical being, often depicted as female.
In a sentence: The little fairy sprinkled magic dust everywhere.
Same family: slur, insult, offensive, derogatory, homophobic. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The insulting use of “fairy” for a gay man comes from the older meaning of ‘fairy’ as a delicate, magical creature, and it began to be used as a slur in English in the early 20th century to suggest that a man was not traditionally ‘masculine.’
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