Fayed vs Flayed - What's the difference?
fayed | flayed |
(fay)
To fit.
To join or unite closely or tightly.
* US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
* Model Shipbuilders , 2010:
To lie close together.
To fadge.
A fairy; an elf.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
White.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
(flay)
To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
To frighten; scare; terrify.
To be fear-stricken.
A fright; a scare.
Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
to strip skin off
to lash
As verbs the difference between fayed and flayed
is that fayed is (fay) while flayed is (flay).fayed
English
Verb
(head)fay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feyen, feien, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
* faying surfaceEtymology 2
From (etyl) fegien, . More at (l), (l), (l).Etymology 3
(etyl) faie, . More at fairy.Noun
(en noun)- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
See also
* fey * faeEtymology 4
Abbreviation of (ofay).Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.