feirie

From Late Middle English fery, equivalent to Old English fer, meaning "fit, able-bodied."

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪəri/

feirie (comparative more feirie, superlative most feirie)

1. healthy; strong
   • 1540, Sir David Lyndsay, Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis, Canongate Books, lines 397-398

     Doubt ye nocht, Sir, bot wee will get hir; Wee sall be feirie for till [fet] hir;

From fere +‎ -ie.

feirie (plural feiries)

1. (archaic or poetic) diminutive of fere (“fere”, n.)

• “Fere, n.¹”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.