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Fey   Listen
verb
Fey  v. t.  To cleanse; to clean out. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fey" Quotes from Famous Books



... are always suspicious of others' wits. He thinks I'm fey." And then aloud: "Maybe ye are not knowing it, but anything at all is likely to happen to ye to-day—on the road to Arden. According to Willie Shakespeare—whom ye are not likely to be acquainted with—it's a place where philosophers ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer

... arrived it was with such a glad heart that, at sight of Francis in her father's Sunday clothes, she laughed so merrily that her mother said 'The lassie maun be fey!' Haggard as he looked, the old twinkle awoke in his eye responsive to her joyous amusement; and David, coming in the next moment from putting up the gray mare with which he had met the coach to bring Kirsty home, saw them all ...
— Heather and Snow • George MacDonald

... laddie, ye'll get yer deid o' caul'!" she cried. "An' preserve's a'! what set ye lauchin' in sic a fearsome fashion as yon? Ye're surely no fey!" ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... my fey, 'tis Elephant and Castle, pursuivant of my brother of Paflagonia; and the Knight, an' my memory serves me, is the gallant Captain Hedzoff! What news from Paflagonia, gallant Hedzoff? Elephant and Castle, beshrew me, thy trumpeting must have ...
— The Rose and the Ring • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Fey" :   touched, elfin, supernatural, insane



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