fairy n.3
1. a fanciful tale, a ‘tall story’.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Oct. 24/1: He had told the inquiring stewards a lot of ‘fairies,’ though they didn’t save him from being ‘rubbed out’ for 12 months. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 19 June 1/1: A punting pal pitched him a fairy about judicial fury . | |
| Sport (Adelaide) 24 Jan. 6/4: The. police report that there is no truth in the ravished girl’s yarn, and tell us that the alleged assault is a ‘fairy’ . | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Home to Harlem 66: Don’t hand me none o’ that fairy stuff, for I ain’t gwine to swallow it. | |
| Hot Gold III i: Who told you that fairy, sergeant? |
2. the teller of fanciful tales.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Oct. 24/2: A wish to be seeing this tipstering being, / Impelled me behind the partition to glance, / And there stood a hairy and beer-sodden ‘fairy,’ / Beguiling a swell with his little romance. |
In phrases
to tell a ‘tall story’.
| Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Nov. 31/2: After that, we nicknamed each one accordin’ to his perktickler perculyeraraty, an’ uster pitch ’em fairies about how we wur learnin’ colonyal, an’ gettin’ remittances from ’Ome. | |
| Fair Go, Spinner 103: He’d pitch ’em lots of ‘fairies’. |