fey - What does it mean?

Adjective

(en-adj)

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

(obsolete) Dying; dead.

(chiefly|Scottish) possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience

overrefined, affected

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|date=2006-01-01 |year= |month= |first= |last= |author=Jennifer Drapkin |coauthors= |title=Wrestling with Fame |volume=39 |issue=1 |page=50 |magazine=Psychology Today |publisher= |issn= citation |passage=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. }}

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|year=2009 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Robert Cohen |title=Amateur Barbarians |chapter= citation |genre= |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780743230360 |page=16 |passage=He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse. }}

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|date= |year=2009 |month=Oct/Nov |first= |last= |author=Lucius Shepard |coauthors= |title=Halloween Town |volume=117 |issue=3/4 |page=129 |magazine=Fantasy and Science Fiction |publisher= |issn= |url= |passage= … 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, … }}

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|year=2011 |year_published= |edition= |editor= |author=Héctor Tobar |title=The Barbarian Nurseries |chapter= |url= |genre= |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=9780374708931 |page= |passage=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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|date= |year=2012 |month=Apr |first= |last= |author= |coauthors= |title=Field Guide: The Club Rules |volume= |issue= |page= |magazine=Town and Country |publisher= |issn= |url= |passage=Bespoke designer Kirk Miller, who offers a contemporary version at his Soho atelier, says, "A club collar shows that a man pays attention to detail. It's a simple way to communicate elegance." And please don't call it a Peter Pan, the club's fey sister. }}

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|date= |year=2012 |first= |last= |author=Jeffery Goldberg |authorlink= |title=What's Your Problem |site=The Atlantic Montly citation |archiveorg= |accessdate=2012-09-17 |passage=Most Ivy League graduates are unaccustomed to pepper spray; perhaps he should spray himself in the face once or twice, to test his tolerance. He should also resist the urge to bring high-end camping equipment to protests—this will make him look fey and elitist. }}

Strange or otherworldly.

Spellbound.

Adjective

(en-adj)

Magical or fairylike.