fairy godfather
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "He has created Barnaby, an amiable little boy who wishes for a fairy godmother and gets a fairy godfather—Mr. O'Malley of the fat paunch, the pink wings, and the bent cigar."
- "What it means is that Daddy, smiling the while and playing fairy godfather to absolutely everybody, has made his money as a war profiteer."
- "Foremost in my mind is the breakout scene in 1960's "Cinderfella," his comic telling of the classic fairy tale in which a mistreated stepchild is granted his wish to go to the ball by a fairy godparent — in this iteration, a fairy godfather played magnificently by Ed Wynn."
- "Dickens is also a fairy godfather hovering over the Hallmark Christmas movies: There are Dickens festivals; the characters quote Dickens to each other; and one movie’s heroine has a dog named “Charles” after the writer."
Etymology
By analogy with fairy godmother.