Slang

airy-fairy

This page is about the slang term airy-fairy

Meaning

overly idealistic, lacking down-to-earth common sense

For example

  • When hippies appeared in the sixties, their ideas about peace and love were called airy-fairy nonsense.

  • Johnny reckons the New Age people he sometimes meets talk about airy-fairy stuff like "aura healings" and "past-life therapy".

Quick Quiz

They started talking about all this airy-fairy stuff when the conversation turned to

a. Formula One car racing

b. spirituality and philosophy

c. aircraft and air travel
a) Formula One car racing b) spirituality and philosophy c) aircraft and air travel

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Contributor: Matt Errey