单词 | fey |
释义 | fey I. 1. a. now chiefly Scotland < they dashed and hewed and smashed till fey men died away — Robert Burns > b. < another and lesser man … gave a fey lonely warning — Hodding Carter > 2. a. < she must be fey and in that case has not long to live — Sir Walter Scott > < was fey that night, with a kind of febrile gaiety, because the favored lover of the moment was home — Frances Towers > b. < he went fey > : touched < the apparently fey but sharply pointed eccentricities — Louis Untermeyer > 3. a. < what qualifications have I to discuss fairies; am I fey — O.S.J.Gogarty > < not being fey he never suspected what it would lead to > b. < she has that half shy, half fey smile and that birdlike perkiness — A.G.Ogden > < the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday — John Mason Brown > : visionary < a Celtic penchant for fey fancies that contrasted with the other's stolid matter-of-factness > II. variant of fay II III. 1. 2. |
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