Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), a. [AS. f[=ae]ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.]
Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]
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Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), n. [See Fay faith.]
Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Fey \Fey\, v. t. [Cf. Feague.]
To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] --Tusser.
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fey
adj 1: slightly insane [syn: 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "fey":
abnormal, anomalous, arcane, crank, crankish, cranky, crotchety,
deviant, deviative, different, divergent, dotty, eccentric, eerie,
erratic, esoteric, exceptional, extramundane, extraterrestrial,
flaky, freakish, funny, hypernormal, hyperphysical, idiocratic,
idiosyncratic, irregular, kinky, kooky, maggoty, mysterious,
numinous, nutty, occult, odd, oddball, otherworldly, peculiar,
preterhuman, preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, psychic,
queer, quirky, screwball, screwy, singular, spiritual, strange,
superhuman, supernatural, supernormal, superphysical,
supersensible, supersensual, supramundane, supranatural,
transcendental, transmundane, twisted, unconventional, unearthly,
unhuman, unnatural, unworldly, wacky, whimsical
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
elfin, touched(p)
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