fay

verb

1. (obsolete)To fit, to add.
2. (transitive)To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.

   “I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.”

3. (intransitive)Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
4. (obsolete)To fadge.
5. (dialectal)To cleanse; clean out.

adj

1. Fitted closely together.

   “Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.”

2. Fairy-like.
3. (US, slang)White; white-skinned.

   “I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.”

noun

1. A fairy.

   “that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].”

2. faith

   “Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. I'll to my rest.”

3. (US, slang)A white person.

name

1. An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
2. A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
3. A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.

   “Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in February that the passport had been “approved,” Mortenson prayed that, for some reason, they had been spared the agonies others were suffering.”

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