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† mafey, int. Obs.
Also 5 mai-, mayfay, maffay, ma(f)fay, ma fa; maffeith, -feyth.
[a. OF. ma fei! (mod.F. ma foi!) ‘my faith’: see fay n.1]
An asseveration, lit. = ‘my faith!’ Cf. ma foi int.
c1374Chaucer Troylus 111. 3 (52) Mafey þought he þus wole I sey. c1400Pride of Life (Brandl 1898) 451 Nou, maifay, hit schal be sene. 1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 75 A, Iak, mafey, me merveilith moche of thin lewidheed! c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3283 Maffeith! your lif stood þere in iupartie. c1440Promp. Parv. 319/2 Mafey, othe (MS. S. maffeyth), medius fidius. c1460Towneley Myst. xxiii. 564 Ma-fay, I tell his lyfe is lorne. |