FAIRIES Synonyms

• an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere

• a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey

• a mischievous sprite of English folklore

• atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves)

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• a junior Girl Scout

• square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts

• a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

• a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

• (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings

• (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings

• an object of dread or apprehension

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• one who is playfully mischievous

• a mischievous elf in Irish folklore

• (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden

• a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly)

• a voluptuously beautiful young woman

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

• a slender graceful young woman

• an elemental being believed to inhabit the air

• a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

• a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

• the enchanted realm of fairies

• a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

• the enchanted realm of fairies

• slightly insane

• suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

• (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings