Foy vs Fay - What's the difference?
foy | fay |
(obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
* , II.x:
(obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
* 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661 , 2006, Echo Library,
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:
As a noun foy
is (obsolete|rare) faith, allegiance.As a proper noun fay is
, originally a nickname from "faith, loyalty" or "a fairy".foy
English
Noun
(-)- He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes.
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- To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy , he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.
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.