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fey

/fey/US // feɪ //UK // (feɪ) //

费伊,假的,费伊尔,费伊人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : British Dialect. doomed; fated to die.
    • : Chiefly Scot. appearing to be under a spell; marked by an apprehension of death, calamity, or evil.
    • : supernatural; unreal; enchanted: elves, fairies, and other fey creatures.
    • : being in unnaturally high spirits, as were formerly thought to precede death.
    • : whimsical; strange; otherworldly: a strange child with a mysterious smile and a fey manner.

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Examples

  • When Andy Warhol reportedly observed over a half-century ago that eventually “everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” I doubt that he thought his fey prediction would inspire an unusually useful and durable expression.

  • We have Maya Rudolph, rather than, say, Tina Fey, headlining an attempt to revive the television variety show.

  • So like, Tina Fey or Ricky Gervais or Ty Burell—and Celine Dion!

  • The legendary puppets have a conversation about Muppets Most Wanted, Oscar bait, and love tapping Tina Fey.

  • And I end up in a prison guarded by Nadya, played by Tina Fey.

  • The two secret ingredients: Poehler and Fey, who transform into clubbing Guidettes with unconventional pickup lines.

  • I had a man go fey on me once, up on the Slave Lake trail, he said slowly.

  • To see one's own fylgja was unlucky, and often a sign that a man was "fey," or death-doomed.

  • The next day he seemed just as gay, from dawn till dark, as good-humoured in fact, "as one who feels himself fey."

  • So tingles the pulsing blood, perhaps, when a man is fey, when the kisses of his mouth are numbered.

  • I hope I am not fey,' I said to myself, with a little thrill of excitement and expectation as the familiar station came in view.