[syn: elfin, fey]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), a. [AS. f[=ae]ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.]
Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), n. [See Fay faith.]
Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fey \Fey\, v. t. [Cf. Feague.]
To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] --Tusser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fey
adj 1: slightly insane [syn: fey, touched(p)]
2: suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness;
"thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning";
"the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at
midday"- John Mason Brown [syn: elfin, fey]