Faced vs Fayed - What's the difference?

faced | fayed |

As verbs the difference between faced and fayed

is that faced is (face) while fayed is (fay).

As an adjective faced

is (slang) drunk.

faced

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

(face)

Etymology 2

abbreviation of shit-faced

Adjective

(en adjective)

(slang) drunk

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Synonyms

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Anagrams

fayed

English

Verb

(head)

(fay)

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 [...].

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of (ofay).

Noun

(en noun)

A white person.

Adjective

(en adjective)

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.