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say it: fay
fey is an adjective meaning "slightly insane". It is pronounced /ˈfeɪ/ — fay. It carries 2 recorded senses.
suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness
“thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning”
“the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.