What is the meaning of fey?

adjective

  • Slightly insane.
  • Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness."thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday- John Mason Brown
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