different between uey vs fey

English

Alternative forms

• Uey, U-ey, u-ie, yewy, youee

Etymology

From U(-turn) +? -ey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?.i/
• Rhymes: -u?i

Noun

uey (plural ueys)

1. (Australia, Canada, Britain, US, colloquial, informal) A U-turn.
   • 1987, Kelly Lawrence, The Gone Shots, Franklin Watts, US, page 280,

     “Don't lose her,” I growled, and plowed between the two cars and across the dividing line and banged a Uey.

   • 2000, Louis J. Fagan, Angelo, Independent Publishers Group, US, page 324,

     Barry musta figured Jamie?s friend lived in town because he did a Uey and headed back that way.

   • 2001, Steve Aylett, Only an Alligator, Scar Garden 2010 (The Complete Accomplice), p. 28:

     Since it pulled a U-ey and snapped Fang on the noggin, Barny had been dressing it in a flowery skirt and hat for reasons which are still a mystery.

   • 2006, Richard Crick, My Word Is My Bonus, AuthorHouse, page 255,

     “ […] Sid, could you please just go up Holborn a little way, do a uey and pull in over there, where we can see the entrance over on this side.”

   • 2007, Richard Marinick, In For a Pound, Justin, Charles & Co., US, page 59,

     Climbing into the Mustang, McCauley banged a Uey in front of the post office and stopped for the red light half a block up at the corner of Sea Street.

Translations

See also

• flip a bitch (US)
• bang a uey (New England)

Anagrams

• Yue

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

uey (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of hu?yi

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