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"etymology_text": "From Middle English fey (“fated to die”), from Old English fǣġe (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk- (“ill-meaning, bad”).\nAkin to Old Saxon fēgi, 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 fāh (“outlawed, hostile”). More at foe.",
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"ref": "1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion",
"text": "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!”",
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"ref": "1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros",
"text": "Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.",
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"About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death."
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"(dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death."
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"roman": "obrečen na smǎrt",
"sense": "doomed to die",
"word": "обречен на смърт"
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"sense": "doomed to die",
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"sense": "doomed to die",
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"sense": "doomed to die",
"word": "feig"
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"roman": "obrečónnyj",
"sense": "doomed to die",
"word": "обречённый"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "doomed to die",
"word": "destinado a morir"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "doomed to die",
"word": "döende"
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"word": "på dödsbädden"
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"(obsolete) Dying; dead."
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"Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience."
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"(chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience."
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"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy",
"text": "His interlocutor was whimsical if not downright fey. He pushed his spectacles to the top of his nose. He shoved them into his greying locks like an effeminate racing driver. He gave Pym sherry and put a hand on his backside in order to propel him to a long window that gave on to a row of council houses.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2006 January 1, Jennifer Drapkin, “Wrestling with Fame”, in Psychology Today, volume 39, number 1, page 50",
"text": "Hoffman does not rely on his talent to carry him through a role. He spent five and a half months transmuting himself into Capote. … He lost 40 pounds and practiced the inscrutable voice and fey mannerisms for an hour or two every day.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2009, Robert Cohen, Amateur Barbarians, Simon and Schuster, page 16",
"text": "He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2009 Oct/Nov, Lucius Shepard, “Halloween Town”, in Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 117, number 3/4, page 129",
"text": "… he did not tell Mary Alonso, who had taken Dell's place as a source of gossip and information, and with whom he went out for drinks on occasion, usually along with Mary's partner, Roberta, a fey, freckly, dark-haired girl, …",
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{
"ref": "2011, Héctor Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux",
"text": "Guadalupe was a fey mexicana with long braids and a taste for embroidered Oaxacan blouses and overwrought indigenous jewelry, and also a former university student like Araceli.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2012 Apr, “Field Guide: The Club Rules”, in Town and Country",
"text": "Bespoke designer Kirk Miller, who offers a contemporary version at his Soho atelier, says, \"A club collar shows that a man pays attention to detail. It's a simple way to communicate elegance.\" And please don't call it a Peter Pan, the club's fey sister.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2012, Jeffery Goldberg, “What's Your Problem”, in The Atlantic Monthly, retrieved 2012-09-17",
"text": "Most Ivy League graduates are unaccustomed to pepper spray; perhaps he should spray himself in the face once or twice, to test his tolerance. He should also resist the urge to bring high-end camping equipment to protests—this will make him look fey and elitist.",
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"Overrefined, affected."
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"ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186",
"text": "Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.",
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"Strange or otherworldly."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "stranen",
"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
"word": "странен"
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"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
"word": "détaché du monde"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ne ot mira sevo",
"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
"word": "не от мира сего"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
"word": "etéreo"
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{
"_dis1": "0 1 0 1 97 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
"word": "extraño"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
"word": "egendomlig"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "dyvnyj",
"sense": "strange or otherworldly",
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"word": "дивний"
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"_dis1": "0 1 0 1 97 1",
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"Spellbound."
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"word": "омагьосан"
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"word": "envoûté"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "spellbound",
"word": "incantato"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "spellbound",
"word": "embelesado"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "spellbound",
"word": "trollbunden"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "začarovanyj",
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"word": "магичен"
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{
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"word": "trolsk"
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"code": "uk",
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"Fairy folk collectively."
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}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/feɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "fay"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-fey.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/En-us-fey.ogg/En-us-fey.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/En-us-fey.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fairy"
}
],
"word": "fey"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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