"She is not very polite.

She says you are a great [huge] ugly girl, and that she is my fairy." He tried to argue with Tink.

"You know you can't be my fairy, Tink, because I am an gentleman and you are a lady." To this Tink replied in these words, "You silly ass," and disappeared into the bathroom.

"She is quite a common fairy," Peter explained apologetically, "she is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles [tinker = tin worker]." [Similar to "cinder" plus "elle" to get Cinderella] They were together in the armchair by this time, and Wendy plied him with more questions.
"If you don't live in Kensington Gardens now--" "Sometimes I do still." "But where do you live mostly now ?" "With the lost boys." "Who are they ?" "They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way.

If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expenses.