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Definition of 'fay'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feyen, feien, from (etyl) . More at (l).
Verb
( en-verb)
To fit.
To join or unite closely or tightly.
* US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
- 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.
* Model Shipbuilders , 2010:
- 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.
To lie close together.
To fadge.
Derived terms
* faying surface
Etymology 2
From (etyl) fegien, . More at (l), (l), (l).
Verb
( en-verb)
(dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.
Etymology 3
(etyl) faie, . More at fairy.
Noun
( en-noun)
A fairy; an elf.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
See also
* fey
* fae
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of (ofay).
Adjective
( en-adj)
White.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
- 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.
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