fey
adjective/feɪ/
/feɪ/
(literary, sometimes disapproving)- (usually of a person) sensitive and rather mysterious or strange; not acting in a very practical way
- One of the guests was a slightly fey romantic novelist.
Word OriginOld English fǣge (in the sense ‘fated to die soon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige ‘cowardly’.
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