fay

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 fā

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fairy.
    — that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
  2. faith
    — Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. I'll to my rest.
  3. A white person. US,slang
动词 v.
  1. To fit, to add. obsolete
  2. To cleanse; clean out. dialectal
  3. To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak. transitive
    — 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.
  4. Of pieces of timber: to lie close together. intransitive
  5. To fadge. obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Fitted closely together.
    — 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.
  2. Fairy-like.
  3. White; white-skinned. US,slang
    — 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.

词形变化

fays present,singular,third-person faying participle,present fayed participle,past fayed past more fay comparative most fay superlative fays plural more fay comparative most fay superlative fays present,singular,third-person faying participle,present fayed participle,past fayed past fays plural more fay comparative most fay superlative

词汇关系

近义词
attach put together
衍生词
faying surface

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English fēġan (“to join, unite”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōgijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōgijaną (“to join”), from *fōgō (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Saterland Frisian fougje (“to join, add”), West Frisian foegje (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), German Low German fögen (“to join, add”), German fügen (“to connect”), Old English fōn (“to catch”). More at fang.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English faie, fei (“a place or person possessed with magical properties”), from Middle French feie, fée (“fairy", "fae”), from Old French fae, from Medieval Latin fāda. More at fairy.
词源 3
From Middle English fei, from Old French fei
词源 4
Inherited from Middle English feien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, polish”), from Proto-Germanic *fēgijaną (“to decorate, make beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *pōḱ-, *pēḱ- (“to clean, adorn”). Cognate with Swedish feja (“to sweep”), Danish feje (“to sweep”), German fegen (“to cleanse, scour, sweep”), Dutch vegen (“to sweep, strike”). More at feague, fake, fair.
词源 5
Abbreviation of ofay.
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