Fey vs From - What's the difference?
fey | from |
(dialectal, or, archaic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
(obsolete) Dying; dead.
(chiefly, Scottish) possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience
overrefined, affected
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, passage= … he did not tell Mary Alonso, who had taken Dell's place as a source of gossip and information, and with whom he went out for drinks on occasion, usually along with Mary's partner, Roberta, a fey , freckly, dark-haired girl, …
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Strange or otherworldly.
Spellbound.
Fairy folk collectively.
With the source or provenance of or at.
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With the separation, exclusion or differentiation of.
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As an adjective fey
is about to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.As a noun fey
is fairy folk collectively.As a preposition from is
with the source or provenance of or at.fey
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Hoffman does not rely on his talent to carry him through a role. He spent five and a half months transmuting himself into Capote. … He lost 40 pounds and practiced the inscrutable voice and fey mannerisms for an hour or two every day. }}
citation, genre= , publisher=Simon and Schuster , isbn=9780743230360 , page=16 , passage=He'd stand at the board making jokes the kids didn't understand, improvising fey little couplets of dactylic verse. }}
citation, archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-09-17 , passage=Most Ivy League graduates are unaccustomed to pepper spray; perhaps he should spray himself in the face once or twice, to test his tolerance. He should also resist the urge to bring high-end camping equipment to protests—this will make him look fey and elitist. }}
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
(etyl) faie, . More at fairy.Noun
(-)See also
* fay * fae ----from
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Preposition
(English prepositions)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
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Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}