Fay vs. Fairy — What's the Difference?

To join or fit closely or tightly.

A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, German, English, and French folklore), a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural. Myths and stories about fairies do not have a single origin, but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from disparate sources.

A fairy or an elf.

A small imaginary being of human form that has magical powers, especially a female one

Faith

A Central and South American hummingbird with a green back and long tail.

A fairy.

A male homosexual.

A white person.

An imaginary being in human form, depicted as clever, mischievous, and possessing magical powers.

Fairy like.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

Fitted closely together.

The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.

White; white-skinned.

A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, and revered in some modern forms of paganism.

(obsolete) To fit.

An enchantress, or creature of overpowering charm.

To join (pieces of timber) tightly.

A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.

Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.

A member of two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.

(obsolete) To fadge.

A legendary Chinese immortal.

(dialectal) To cleanse; clean out.

Like a fairy; fanciful, whimsical, delicate.

A fairy; an elf.

Enchantment; illusion.

Faith; as, by my fay.

The country of the fays; land of illusions.

To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so as to make the surface fit together.

An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.

To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; - often with in, into, with, or together.

An enchantress.

Of or pertaining to fairies.

Given by fairies; as, fairy money.

Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers

Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man