Meaning of Fay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
2. A fairy.
3. A white person.
   US, slang
4. A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
5. A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
6. A place name:
7. A commune in Orne department, Normandy, France.
8. A commune in Sarthe department, Pays de la Loire, France.
9. A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.
10. An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.
11. A census-designated place in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Examples

“that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].”

“Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in February that the passport had been “approved,” Mortenson prayed that, for some reason, they had been spared the agonies others were suffering.”

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