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fay
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?, IPA(key): /fe?/
- Homophone: fey
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
From Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English f??an (“to join, unite”), from Proto-Germanic *f?gijan? (“to join”), from *f?g? (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pa?- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Old Frisian f?gia (“to join”), Old Saxon f?gian (“to join”), Middle Low German fögen (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), Old High German fuogen (“to connect”) (German fügen (“to connect”)), Old English f?n (“to catch”). More at fang.
Verb
fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)
- To fit.
- To join or unite closely or tightly.
- Model Shipbuilders, 2010:
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
- Model Shipbuilders, 2010:
- To lie close together.
- To fadge.
Synonyms
- (to join or unite closely): affix, attach, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
Derived terms
- faying surface
Translations
Adjective
fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
- Fitted closely together.
- US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
- US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
Etymology 2
From Middle English fegien, fæien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *f?gijan? (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *p??-, *p??- (“to clean, adorn”). Cognate with Swedish feja (“to sweep”), Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, strike”). More at feague, fake, fair.
Verb
fay (third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed)
- (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
Translations
Etymology 3
Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.
Noun
fay (plural fays)
- A fairy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
Synonyms
- See fairy
Translations
Adjective
fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
- Fairy like.
See also
- fey
- fae
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of ofay.
Noun
fay (plural fays)
- (US slang) A white person.
Translations
Adjective
fay (comparative more fay, superlative most fay)
- (US slang) White; white-skinned.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
Translations
Anagrams
- FYA, YAF
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English f?g.
Noun
fay
- Alternative form of fou
Etymology 2
From Old English f??e.
Adjective
fay
- Alternative form of fey (“marked for death”)
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fady
English
Etymology 1
fade +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe?di/
Adjective
fady (comparative more fady, superlative most fady)
- (archaic, rare) faded
- 1764, William Shenstone, Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening (1764)
- A straight-lined avenue, that is widened in front, and planted there with yew trees, then firs, then with trees more and more fady, till they end in the almond-willow, or silver osier, will produce a very remarkable deception of the former kind […]
- 1764, William Shenstone, Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening (1764)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Malagasy fady.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f??di/
Noun
fady (uncountable)
- A system of taboos in the traditional culture of Madagascar.
Adjective
fady (not comparable)
- Taboo, or forbidden, under the fady system.
Malagasy
Noun
fady
- taboo, fady
Descendants
- ? English: fady
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