Obs. Sc. Forms: 6 fery fary, fe(i)rie farye, fiery fairy, 7 feery fary, 8 fearie-fairy. [reduplicated form of FARY.] ‘Bustle, confusion’ (Jam.).

1

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., III. 109.

                    The ferie farye …
Wes maid that tyme at mariage of our king.

2

1597.  Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 252.

        Quha reft me, and left me
  In sik a feirie-farye.

3

1641.  R. Baillie, Jrnl. & Lett. (1775), I. xxviii. 285. Chamber and table discourse, for argument, flum-flams, and fearie-fairies, could not be treasons.

4

a. 1724.  Battle of Harlaw, ii., in Evergreen (1761), I. 78. All Folks war in a fiery fairy.

5