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Fay

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //feɪ//

An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.

  2. 2

    A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)

  3. 3

    A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.

    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.

  4. 4

    A place name: A commune in Orne department, Normandy, France.

  5. 5

    A place name: A commune in Sarthe department, Pays de la Loire, France.

  6. 6

    A place name: A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France.

  7. 7

    A place name: An unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States.

  8. 8

    A place name: A census-designated place in Dewey County, Oklahoma, United States.

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