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/fˈɛri gˈɑdmˌəðər/ Listen

Fairy godmother

noun

A generous benefactor.

A female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine.

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"Fairy godmother" Quotes from Famous Books

... falling in love with Gorla. He was more profitably engaged in paying court to the Grafin von Tolb, whose hospitable mansion in Belgrave Square invested her with a special interest in his eyes. As a professional Prince Charming he had every inducement to encourage the cult of Fairy Godmother. ...

— When William Came • Saki

... sharp of you, godmother," returned Miss Wren, with great approbation, "to understand me. But, you see, you are so like the fairy godmother in the bright little books! You look so unlike the rest of the people, and so much as if you had changed yourself into that shape, just this moment, with some benevolent object. Bah!" cried Miss Jenny, ...

— Ten Girls from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... as they are. I should be most effectively convinced that he did if I found him staring with religious astonishment at his own feet. "What are those two beautiful and industrious beings," I can imagine him murmuring to himself, "whom I see everywhere, serving me I know not why? What fairy godmother bade them come trotting out of elfland when I was born? What god of the borderland, what barbaric god of legs, must I propitiate with fire and wine, lest ...

— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton

Words linked to "Fairy godmother" : fairy, benefactor, faerie, sprite, fay, faery, helper