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Definition: Fey |
FeyAdjective1. Slightly insane. 2. Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1882. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fey Predestined to early death. When a person suddenly changes his wonted manner of life, as when a miser becomes liberal, or a churl good-humoured, he is said in Scotch to be fey, and near the point of death. "She must be fey (said Triptolemus), and in that case has not long to live." - Sir W. Scott: The Pirate, chap.v. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | See:fea. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fey is also a name for the folk who live in Faerie.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fey."
Synonyms: FeySynonyms: elfin (adj), touched(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Unfortunate; (hapless); to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fey |
| English words defined with "fey": elfin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fey": Feague. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "Fey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Fey" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.65% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fey | Last name | 1,000 | 9,452 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fey": fey-faced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sana fey | 306 | sana fey hardcore | 4 |
fey tina | 232 | fey hentai | 4 |
fey | 225 | barry fey | 4 |
fey bumper | 21 | company fey | 4 |
amber fey | 19 | fey fotos | 4 |
fey nude tina | 16 | fey picture sana | 4 |
sana fey pic | 13 | sana fey porn star | 4 |
fey picture tina | 10 | automotive fey | 3 |
fey le morgan | 10 | fallon fey | 3 |
fey pic tina | 9 | fey free pic sana | 3 |
tina fey scar | 9 | fey meyers | 3 |
fey la morgan | 9 | fey tarot | 3 |
fey lyrics | 8 | fey gallery tina | 3 |
fey ri | 7 | fey grace | 3 |
fey vertigo | 6 | fey sanna | 3 |
fey kim | 5 | cantante fey | 3 |
fey industry | 5 | fey photo tina | 3 |
de fey fotos | 5 | santa fey | 3 |
sana fey gallery | 5 | fey free hardcore pic sana | 3 |
desnuda fey | 4 | fey naked tina | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "fey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i dënuar (con, condemned, convict, convicted, damned, damning, doomed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с дарба на ясновидец, в странно настроение, обречен на смърт (doomed). (various references) | |
Czech | umírající (dying). (various references) | |
Farsi | مقدر (Tacit), محکوم (Guilty), هذیانی (Delirious), دیوانه (Bedlam, Berserk, Crazy, Cuckoo, Demented, Fanatic, Gaga, Harebrained, Insane, Loco, Loony, Lunatic, Mad, Madbrained, Madcap, Manic, Natural, Nut, Nutty, Psychotic), دارای روحیه خراب واشفته , درسکرات موت (Moribund). (various references) | |
French | opération de Fey-Bompart (Fey-Bompart operation), opération de Fey et Bompart (Fey-Bompart operation). (various references) | |
German | todgeweiht (doomed, moribund). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elátkozott (accursed, damned, deuced), vizionáló, túlvilági (otherworldly), megbabonázott (bewitched, deuced, enchanted), kótyagos (hare-brained, have bats in the belfry, muddle-headed, off one's crumpet, pixy-led), haldokló (dying, moribund), halált váró, halálra szánt, elvarázsolt (charmed, pixied, pixy-led, wayout, way-out), bolondos (barmy, cockeyed, dorky, freaky, frolicsome, harebrained, jocose, pixilated, scatty, screwy, wayout, way-out). (various references) | |
Manx | raaid y vaaish, ersooyl marish ferrishyn, er chee geddyn baase. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | visionário (air-monger, castle-builder, doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dreamer, notional, star-gazer, transcendental, viewy, visional, visionary), louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, raving, wacky), condenado a morrer. (various references) | |
Russian | обреченный (doomed, fated). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proklet (accursed, accurst, blasted, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, doomed, maledictory, reprobate). (various references) | |
Spanish | vidente (clairvoyant, seeing, seer, sighted). (various references) | |
Swedish | vimsig (pixilated, woozy), klärvoajant (clairvoyant, second-sighted), dödsmärkt. (various references) | |
Thai | แปลกๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaprisli (capricious, fanciful, freakish, humoursome, notional, wayward, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), kafası karışık (woozy), kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, Dotty, fantastic, fantastical, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), gaipten haber veren, ölümün eşiğinde olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умираючий (dying, moribund, outward bound), фатальний (basilisk, deathly, fatal, fateful, weird), кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, feeble, languid, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, silly, spindly, washy, weakly), приречений (doomed, fated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fey": feyer, feyest, feyly, feyness, feynesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fey": housewifey. (additional references) | |
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"Fey" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cey, ef, effy, Efh, efi, efik, Efk, efp, efty, efx, efy, facy, fai, faky, fayn, fayo, fe, fea, fec, feei, fef, feg, Feh, fei, feia, feib, Feiea, feien, feiy, fej, fek, femy, fep, feq, fery, fety, fev, fewy, fex, feya, feye, feyi, feyl, feys, Feyyaz, fezy, Fhe, fhey, fiby, fii, fimy, fisy, fivy, fiy, fley, foey, foie, fovy, fowy, foyt, fpe, Fsyn, fui, fuy, fuys, fye, fyen, fyu, fyw, fyz, gfy, oey, ofay, ofey, veey, vey, yef, yey, zey, zfy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fey" (pronounced fā") |
| 2 | f ā" | buffet, cafe, Fay. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-y" | |
-1 letter: ef, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-y" | |
+1 letter: defy, fley, fyce, fyke. | |
+2 letters: beefy, deify, edify, faery, fakey, fayed, felly, fenny, ferly, ferny, ferry, feyer, feyly, fiery, fleys, flyer, flyte, fogey, foyer, fryer, fyces, fykes, fytte, hefty, leafy, lefty, reefy, refly, refry, reify. | |
+3 letters: aerify, belfry, casefy, deafly, defray, deftly, effigy, eyeful, fakery, fealty, featly, feckly, feebly, feisty, felony, ferity, feyest, finely, finery, flakey, flayed, flayer, flecky, fledgy, fleecy, fleshy, fleury, fleyed, flooey, flukey, flutey, flyers, flymen, flyted, flytes, fogeys, forbye, foreby, foyers, frayed, freaky, freely, frenzy, fretty, fryers, fyttes, liefly, medfly, myself, offkey, rarefy, redefy, rifely, safely, safety, tepefy, tumefy, verify, wafery, wifely, yaffed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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