| 单词 | fey |
| 释义 | fey (once / 10172 pages) adj Have you met someone who speaks like they’re casting spells and has a distant look in their eyes? That’s a fey person, someone who seems like they come from another world, kind of like an elf. There’s a fey girl, let’s call her Faye. Fey Faye is not an elf nor a witch, but she seems supernatural in a vague way, and her voice sounds like a magic flute. Fey comes from the Old English word fǣge, or literally “fated to die soon,” which refers to that odd good mood a person is in right before they die. Don’t worry, that definition isn’t used anymore, and fey Faye isn’t dying. But she is kind of spooky. WORD FAMILYfey: feyer, feyest USAGE EXAMPLESFey then said, “First, there’s a lot of reassurance that everyone’s ... is still very grabable.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) Luckily, Desmond himself is not nearly so contradictory, and the fey, almost doe-like Garfield imbues him with an irresistible mix of gentleness and grit. Washington Post(Nov 03, 2016) Fey revealed the bad blood during a wide-ranging Q&A on Friday, Variety reports. Washington Post(Oct 30, 2016) 1adj suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown Syn elfin supernatural not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material 2adj slightly insane Syn touched insane afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement |
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