Meaning of fairy godfather | Babel Free

Definitions

Male equivalent of fairy godmother.

form-of, masculine

Examples

“He has created Barnaby, an amiable little boy who wishes for a fairy godmother and gets a fairy godfather—Mr. O'Malley of the fat paunch, the pink wings, and the bent cigar.”

“What it means is that Daddy, smiling the while and playing fairy godfather to absolutely everybody, has made his money as a war profiteer.”

“Foremost in my mind is the breakout scene in 1960's "Cinderfella," his comic telling of the classic fairy tale in which a mistreated stepchild is granted his wish to go to the ball by a fairy godparent — in this iteration, a fairy godfather played magnificently by Ed Wynn.”

“Dickens is also a fairy godfather hovering over the Hallmark Christmas movies: There are Dickens festivals; the characters quote Dickens to each other; and one movie’s heroine has a dog named “Charles” after the writer.”

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