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单词 fey
释义 fey
I. \ˈfā\ adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: Middle English feie, feye, fay, from Old English fǣge; akin to Old Saxon fēgi, fēg doomed to die, Old High German feigi, Old Norse feigr, and perhaps to Old English fāh hostile, outlawed — more at foe
1.
 a. now chiefly Scotland : fated to die : doomed
  < they dashed and hewed and smashed till fey men died away — Robert Burns >
 b. : marked or disturbed by an apprehension of death or calamity
  < another and lesser man … gave a fey lonely warning — Hodding Carter >
2.
 a. : being in a wild or elated state of mind formerly believed to portend death : behaving in an excited irresponsible manner : beside oneself
  < 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. : out of one's mind : mad
  < he went fey >
  : touched
  < the apparently fey but sharply pointed eccentricities — Louis Untermeyer >
3. [probably influenced in meaning by fay (IV) ]
 a. : able to see fairies or to have intuitions about the future : possessing a sixth sense : clairvoyant
  < 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. : characterized by an unworldly air or attitude : elfin
  < 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. adjective
1. : excessively refined : precious
2. : quaintly unconventional : campy
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