fairy snuff

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intj

UK /ˌfɛəɹɪˈsnʌf/

Etymology A humorous alteration due to the homeophony of fair enough and fairy snuff.

Fair enough.

An impeccable Cockney rhyme, though it may offend purists of speech, is burnt cinders ‘windows’; whilst fairy snuff ‘fair enough’ is certainly a true rhyme despite its extra s.1981, Peter Wright, Cockney Dialect and Slang, Batsford, →ISBN, page 99, →ISBN:

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