fey
adjective /feɪ/
/feɪ/
(literary, sometimes disapproving)- (usually of a person
通常指人 古怪易冲动的；有点故弄玄虚的；不讲求实际的 - One of the guests was a slightly fey romantic novelist.
其中一位客人是一位有点狂热的浪漫主义小说家。
词源Old English fǣge (in the sense ‘fated to die soon’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige ‘cowardly’. - One of the guests was a slightly fey romantic novelist.