"sky fairy" meaning in English

See sky fairy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sky fairies [plural]
Etymology: A generalization of the earlier Sky Fairy, q.v. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Sky Fairy}} Sky Fairy Head templates: {{en-noun}} sky fairy (plural sky fairies)
  1. (derogatory slang, possibly offensive) A god. Tags: derogatory, offensive, possibly, slang Categories (topical): Atheism, Gods Synonyms: sky daddy, god

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sky fairy meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Sky Fairy"
      },
      "expansion": "Sky Fairy",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A generalization of the earlier Sky Fairy, q.v.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sky fairies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sky fairy (plural sky fairies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Atheism",
          "orig": "en:Atheism",
          "parents": [
            "Philosophy",
            "Religion",
            "All topics",
            "Culture",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Gods",
          "orig": "en:Gods",
          "parents": [
            "Religion",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 20, Zarya, “Re: If You Have Morality and Reason on Your Side . . . .”, in aus.politics (Usenet)",
          "text": "Then there's the Roman sky fairies, the ancient Greek sky fairies the multi-limbed female with an Elephant's head that the \"world's biggest democracy\" (India) believes in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 February 13, Ördög [username], “Re: The most unpopular government ever...”, in aus.politics (Usenet)",
          "text": "This thread has degenerated now into a debate about whose sky fairy is the true sky fairy and therefore has reached the point of total absurdity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 December 1, Gawdlezz [username], “Re: What!? You Mean Birds Did Come from Dinosaurs, After All?”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet)",
          "text": "You don't prove the negative. The burden of proof is on those who posit the existence of their cosmic sky fairy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A god."
      ],
      "id": "en-sky_fairy-en-noun-fANtJbXt",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "god",
          "god"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory slang, possibly offensive) A god."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sky daddy"
        },
        {
          "word": "god"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "offensive",
        "possibly",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sky fairy"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Sky Fairy"
      },
      "expansion": "Sky Fairy",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "A generalization of the earlier Sky Fairy, q.v.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sky fairies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sky fairy (plural sky fairies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Atheism",
        "en:Gods"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 20, Zarya, “Re: If You Have Morality and Reason on Your Side . . . .”, in aus.politics (Usenet)",
          "text": "Then there's the Roman sky fairies, the ancient Greek sky fairies the multi-limbed female with an Elephant's head that the \"world's biggest democracy\" (India) believes in.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 February 13, Ördög [username], “Re: The most unpopular government ever...”, in aus.politics (Usenet)",
          "text": "This thread has degenerated now into a debate about whose sky fairy is the true sky fairy and therefore has reached the point of total absurdity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 December 1, Gawdlezz [username], “Re: What!? You Mean Birds Did Come from Dinosaurs, After All?”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet)",
          "text": "You don't prove the negative. The burden of proof is on those who posit the existence of their cosmic sky fairy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A god."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "god",
          "god"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory slang, possibly offensive) A god."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sky daddy"
        },
        {
          "word": "god"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "offensive",
        "possibly",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sky fairy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.