Fey

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), a. [AS. f[=ae]ga, Icel. feigr, OHG. feigi.]
     Fated; doomed. [Old Eng. & Scot.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Fey \Fey\ (f[=a]), n. [See {Fay} faith.]
     Faith. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fey \Fey\, v. t. [Cf. {Feague}.]
     To cleanse; to clean out. [Obs.] --Tusser.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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