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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