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Etymology

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Calque of French fée verte.

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Noun

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green fairy (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Absinthe liquor.
    • 2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe[1], Penguin, →ISBN:
      Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.
  2. (New Zealand, colloquial) A person who supplies medicinal cannabis products illegally.
    • 2020, James Borrowdale, Weed: A New Zealand Story[2], Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN:
      She used to buy the majority of her medicines from a local green fairy, but when they were busted, her supply line, like that of many other patients, was cut.

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