Fay

Verb

 * 1) To fit.
 * 2) To join or unite closely or tightly.
 * 3) To lie close together.
 * 4) To fadge.

Derived terms

 * faying surface

Verb

 * 1)  To cleanse; clean out.

Noun

 * 1) A fairy; an elf.
 * 2) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
 * that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 A white person.

Adjective

 * 1) 🇺🇸 White.
 * 2) *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.

Thesaurus
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Oberon, Titania, banshee, brownie, cluricaune, dwarf, elf, fairy, fairy queen, gnome, goblin, gremlin, hob, imp, kobold, leprechaun, ouphe, peri, pixie, pooka, puca, pwca, sprite, sylph, sylphid

Etymology 1
From feyen:, feien:, from  fegan:, from  from, from. Akin to fogia: "to join",  fogian: "to join" ( voegen: "to place"),  fuogen: "to connect" ( fügen: "to connect"),  fon: "to catch". More at.

Etymology 2
From fegien:, fæien:, from  fægja:, from, from. Cognate with feja:,  feje:,  fegen:,  vegen:. More at, ,.

Etymology 3
faie:, fei:, from feie:, fee:. More at fairy.

Etymology 4
Abbreviation of ofay:.

Verb

 * French:

Anagrams

 * FYA