fey

adj

1. (archaic, dialectal, poetic)About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.

   “Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.”

   “Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!””

2. (obsolete)Dying; dead.
3. (Ireland, Scotland)Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
4. Overrefined, affected.

   “His interlocutor was whimsical if not downright fey. He pushed his spectacles to the top of his nose. He shoved them into his greying locks like an effeminate racing driver. He gave Pym sherry and put a hand on his backside in order to propel him to a long window that gave on to a row of council houses.”

   “Hoffman does not rely on his talent to carry him through a role. He spent five and a half months transmuting himself into Capote. … He lost 40 pounds and practiced the inscrutable voice and fey mannerisms for an hour or two every day.”

   “He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse.”

   “… he did not tell Mary Alonso, who had taken Dell's place as a source of gossip and information, and with whom he went out for drinks on occasion, usually along with Mary's partner, Roberta, a fey, freckly, dark-haired girl, …”

   “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.”

5. Strange or otherworldly.

   “Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.”

6. Spellbound.
7. Magical or fairylike.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A fairy.
2. (countable, uncountable)Fairy folk collectively.
3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).

verb

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To cleanse.

   “to fey a drain or ditch”

name

1. A surname.