a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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noun Obsolete.

faith.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English fai, fei < Anglo-French, variant of feid faith

noun Slang.

ofay.

Origin:
1925–30; by shortening

noun

a female given name, form of Faith.

Also, Faye.

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fay¹ (feɪ)

—n
1.	a fairy or sprite

—*adj*
2.	of or resembling a fay
3.	informal pretentious or precious

[C14: from Old French feie, ultimately from Latin fātumfate]

fay² (feɪ)

—vb
	to fit or be fitted closely or tightly

[Old English fēgan to join; related to Old High German fuogen, Latin pangere to fasten]

fay³ (feɪ)

—n
	an obsolete word for faith

[C13: from Anglo-French feid; see faith]

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fay

"fairy," 1393, from O.Fr. fae, from V.L. fata, fem. sing of L. fata (neut. pl.), lit. "the Fates." Adj. meaning "homosexual" is attested from 1950s.

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