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fey

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"Otherworldly"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /feɪ/Part of speech adjectiveSorted efyStarts with FEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness

Word origin

From Middle English feye (“fated to die”), from Old English fǣġe (“doomed to die, timid”), from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz (“cowardly, wicked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk- (“ill-meaning, bad”).

Used in a sentence

  • Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.
  • He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse.
  • Guadalupe was a fey mexicana with long braids and a taste for embroidered Oaxacan blouses and overwrought indigenous jewelry, and also a former university student like Araceli.

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