Definition of "fey" in Englisch

adjective

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

2. (obsolete) Dying; dead.

3. (chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

4. Overrefined, affected.

5. Strange or otherworldly.

6. Spellbound.

adjective

1. Magical or fairylike.

noun

1. (fiction, mysticism) A fairy.

2. (construed as plural) Fairy folk collectively.

noun

1. Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).

verb

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

   • to fey a drain or ditch