fey
pronunciation
How to pronounce fey in British English:
UK [feɪ]
How to pronounce fey in American English:
US [fe]
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- Adjective:
- slightly insane
- suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
Word Origin
- fey (adj.)
- "of excitement that presages death," from Old English fæge "doomed to die, fated, destines," also "timid, feeble;" and/or from Old Norse feigr, both from Proto-Germanic *faigjo- (cognates: Old Saxon fegi, Old Frisian fai, Middle Dutch vege, Middle High German veige "doomed," also "timid," German feige "cowardly"), from PIE *peig- (2) "evil-minded, hostile" (see foe). Preserved in Scottish. Sense of "displaying unearthly qualities" and "disordered in the mind (like one about to die)" led to modern ironic sense of "affected."
Example
- 1. They may well have been irritatingly fey at times .
- 2. It 's weekend update with tina fey and amy poehler !
- 3. If it were in the land of the irish I would say they were gifts left fot the fey folks .
- 4. Tina fey stunned in a navy strapless custom dress by carolina herrera .
- 5. He dismissed her later poems as fey and frivolous .