Sekirov Dictionary

fey

/feɪ/

adjective 7
noun 2
verb 1
forms 7

adjective7

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Strange or otherworldly.
- Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey. — 1907
Magical or fairylike.
•
Overrefined, affected.
- He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse. — 2009
(Ireland, Scotland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
Spellbound.
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(dialect, no longer used) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
- Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons. — 1922
(no longer used) Dying; dead.

noun2

A fairy.
Fairy folk collectively.

verb1

(dialect, no longer used) To cleanse.

forms

feyed · feying · feys · feyer · more fey · feyest · most fey

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