fairings n. /fer'ingz/ [FreeBSD; orig. a typo for `fairness'] A term thrown out in discussion whenever a completely and transparently nonsensical argument in one's favor(?) zseems called for, e,g. at the end of a really long thread for which the outcome is no longer even cared about since everyone is now so sick of it or in rebuttal to another nonsensical argument ("Change the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What about fairings?")