[
UK
/fˈeɪ/
]
[ US /ˈfeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday
thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning - slightly insane
How To Use fey In A Sentence
- It's no longer all about the little wifey having the hubby's meal on the table at 6pm on the button.
- The stress marks might seem quaint to us; but McGuffey believed that rhythm and harmony have not only an aesthetic but also a moral value.
- fey" -- at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens. The Captain of the Polestar
- The Nobel laureate Richard Feynman once made a tentative suggestion that a theory uniting quantum mechanics and relativity might lead to an objective state reduction, and others have taken up and built on this idea.
- King Arthur was surrounded by fey women, all intimately concerned with his fate.
- Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype.
- Endearingly fey one minute, Norton will then go straight for the jugular of some poor, taste-challenged Pom in the audience, or phone an American eccentric on his dog-phone.
- Oh, aye; ye can be gey clever, twistin 'the words in my mouth, feyther; but richt is richt, an' wrang's wrang, for all yer cleverness. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
- Coffey, who the U.K.'s Sunday Times dubbed "Wizard of Oz" in a nod to his homeland of Australia, is known for his quick- fire trading style -- buying and selling large volumes of securities daily. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- Without waiting for a reply, Mr. McGuffey dropped back into his department and Captain Scraggs, his soul filled with rage and dire forebodings, repaired to the galley, and "candled" four dozen eggs. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates