foy
Americannoun
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Chiefly Scot. a farewell gift, feast, or drink.
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faith.
Example Sentences
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The silver trays on foy er tables whitened with visiting cards and notes.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Well, I guess you can give us some patty de foy grass, and squab on toast, and angel cake."
From The Huntress by Hulbert Footner
I was riding once," said he, "with Brady, titular Bishop of Ardagh, when he observed to me, 'Ma foy, Best, this huge overgrown bush is mightily in the way.
From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Washington Irving
Perhaps they are derived from fey or foy, spry, wry, wreak, brew, mow, fry, bray, say, work.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson
The knight asks if he knows who the lady is, “Par la foy que vous deuez o dieu,” fait le cheuallier estrange, “scauez vous bien qui la dame est que vous regardez?”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
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