Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)To cleanse.

    to fey a drain or ditch

Origin

Inherited from Middle English feien (“to cleanse”), from Old Norse fægja (“to cleanse, pol

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.

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Forms

feys, feying, feyed, feyed
Base formfey · to fey
3rd person singularfeys
Present participlefeying
Past simplefeyed
Past participlefeyed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfey
he, she, itfeys

Past simpleLesson

all personsfeyed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave feyed
he, she, ithas feyed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fey

Word family

2 related words
Relatedfayfae

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
feverishfewA2fewerfiancefiascofiat

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