Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Otherworldly”3 letters
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