Definition of "fay"

fay¹

/feɪ/

noun
plural fays
1. A fairy.
  Quotations
  that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
adjective
comparative more fay, superlative most fay
1. Fairy like.

fay²

/feɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed
1. (obsolete) To fit.
2. (shipbuilding, transitive) To join (pieces of timber) tightly.
  Quotations
  I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
  Model Shipbuilders, 2010
3. (shipbuilding, intransitive) Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
4. (obsolete) To fadge.
adjective
comparative more fay, superlative most fay
1. Fitted closely together.
  Quotations
  Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
  US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006

fay³

/feɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present fays, present participle faying, simple past and past participle fayed
1. (dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.

fay⁴

/feɪ/

noun
plural fays
1. (US slang) A white person.
adjective
comparative more fay, superlative most fay
1. (US slang) White; white-skinned.
  Quotations
  I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
  1946, Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 62