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Faxed vs Fayed - What's the difference?

faxed | fayed |

As verbs the difference between faxed and fayed

is that faxed is past tense of fax while fayed is past tense of fay.

As an adjective faxed

is having a head of hair; hairy.

faxed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) *. More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Having a head of hair; hairy.
  • * 1859 , The London review: Volume 11:
    • A comet is a ‘faxed ’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star.
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fax)

    • 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 [...].
    See also
    * fey * fae

    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.

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