Dictionary Definition: Pharisees or Fairisies in Kent

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FAIRISIES [farr’iseez] sb. pi. Fairies. This reduplicated plural of fairy fairyses gives rise to endless mistakes between the fairies of the story-books and the Pharisees of the Bible. W.D. Parish and W.F. Shaw A dictionary of the Kentish dialect and provincialisms in use in the County of Kent (1888), 52

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