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English

Adjective

fye (comparative more fye, superlative most fye)

1. (nonstandard, Internet slang) Alternative form of fire (with a heavy southern accent)

   Dude dat man just hit dem folks, and it was so fye m8.

Interjection

fye!

1. Alternative form of fie

Anagrams

• Fey, fey

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: fay

Alternative forms

• fay

Etymology 1

From Middle English fey (“fated to die”), from Old English f??e (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk-, *peyg- (“ill-meaning, bad”).

Akin to Old Saxon f?gi whence Dutch veeg (“doomed, near death”), Old High German feigi (“appointed for death, ungodly”) whence German feige (“cowardly”), Old Norse feigr (“doomed”) whence the Icelandic feigur (“doomed to die”), Old English f?h (“outlawed, hostile”). More at foe.

Adjective

fey (comparative more fey, superlative most fey)

1. (dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
   • 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion:

     Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!”

   • 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:

     Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.

2. (obsolete) Dying; dead.
3. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
4. Overrefined, affected.
5. Strange or otherworldly.
6. Spellbound.

Derived terms

• feydom

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fee (“fairy", "fae”). More at fairy.

Adjective

fey (comparative more fey, superlative most fey)

1. Magical or fairylike.

Translations

Noun

fey pl (plural only)

1. Fairy folk collectively.

Synonyms

• See fairy

See also

• fay
• fae

Anagrams

• Fye, fye

Mapudungun

Pronoun

fey (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. Third-person singular personal pronoun. he, she, it.

See also

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English f??e, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz.

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) fæie, væie, fæy, fei?e, vai?e, feaye
• feye, fay, faie, veie, veye, faye, fei, vey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i?(?)/
• (Southern ME) IPA^(key): /?v?i?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?i?(?)

Adjective

fey

2. Marked, fated for, or destined for death; doomed.
3. Approaching or near one's deathbed; about to pass away.
4. (rare) Tending to cause or leading to death; dangerous.
5. (rare) Having bad luck; frowned upon by fate or fortune.
6. (rare) Weak, afflicted, or vulnerable.

Descendants

• English: fey, fay
• Scots: fey

References

• “fei(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French feie (modern French foie), from Latin f?c?tum.

Alternative forms

• fee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?i?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?i?(?)

Noun

fey

2. (rare) The liver as used in cooking.

References

• “fei, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

Scots

Noun

fey (plural feys)

1. a premonition of death

Adjective

fey

1. possessing second sight, premonitory

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fej/

Noun

fey (nominative plural feys)

1. fairy

Declension