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Fay vs Faydom - What's the difference?

fay | faydom |

In dialectal terms the difference between fay and faydom

is that fay is to cleanse; clean out while faydom is a portent, usually of death; doom.

As nouns the difference between fay and faydom

is that fay is a fairy; an elf while faydom is the state of being fay or doomed.

As a verb fay

is to fit.

As an adjective fay

is white.

As a proper noun Fay

is {{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname from "faith, loyalty" or "a fairy".

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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    faydom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being fay or doomed.
  • (dialectal) A portent, usually of death; doom.
  • *2005 , John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet :
    • Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?
  • *1998 , George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz :
    • He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom .
  • *1853 , Charles Dickens, Household words :
    • [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.