Friday, April 20, 2007

WORD A DAY

FEY: 1: able to see into the future 2: marked by an otherwordly air or attitude 3: crazy 4: excessively refined 5: quaintly unconventional

In Old and Middle English, "fey" mean "feeble" or "sickly," but those meanings turned out to be less than robust themselves. Still, the word lived on in senses related to death, and because a wild or elated state of mind was once believed to portend death, other senses developed. The word "fay," meaning "fairy" or "elf," may also have had an influence on some uses of "fey." Not until the late 20th century did the word's most recent senses, "precious" and "campy," find their way onto the pages of the dictionary.

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