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Fringy

adj, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Beyond the mainstream. informal

    "In another, if fringier, analysis, the show’s focus on the struggles of a contained brigade of human survivors in a post-apocalyptic galaxy is a loose parable for the events in the Book of Mormon: Gaius Baltar (James Callis), the venal scientist turned collaborator turned false prophet turned savior equated not with Jesus or a hundred televangelists but with Joseph Smith."

  2. 2
    Adorned with fringes.
Adjective
  1. 1
    at or constituting a border or edge wordnet

Etymology

From fringe + -y.

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