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fey. Fey usually means “being in unnaturally high spirits, or unreal, enchanted,” as in “elves and other fey creatures.” In times past someone who suddenly acted so lighthearted was thought to be on the point of death, fey deriving from the Anglo-Saxon faege, “on the verge of death.” Fey has recently become a deroga- tory synonym for effeminate, perhaps from being associated with fairy. |