foy
foy noun: faith, allegiance.
Noun
foy (countable and uncountable, plural foys)
- Faith, allegiance.
- He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- A feast given by one about to leave a place.
- To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, Echo Library, page 124
Proper noun capitalized: Foy
Foy (plural Foys)
- A surname.
- Synonym of Sainte-Foy, various places, especially Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
- FOY, or St Foy, a town in Guienne, in France, thirty-two miles eaſt of Bourdeaux; it is ſituated under the meridian of London, in 44°, 50′, N. lat.1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630
- Synonyms:
- Sainte-Foy, various places
Synonyms of foy
- Sainte-Foy
- various places
Forms of foy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | foys |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Foys |
Origin of foy
From Middle French foy. Doublet of faith.
From Middle French foy (“faith”) and placenames such as Sainte-Foy, variously from sainte foy (“holy faith”) and from the French name of St. Faith.
Words that rhyme with foy
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- JOI
- joy
- alloy
- Amoy
- cloy
- convoy
- deploy
- goy
- oi
- overjoy
- ploy
- travois
- ahoy
- annoy
- catboy
- Choi
- foxboy
- Hanoi
- hoi polloi
- kathoey
- poi
- Saint Croix
- soy
- Sukhoi
- accoy
- bok choy
- cocky's joy
- diaperboy
- doy
- Floy
- hoi
- hoo, boy
- hoy
- killjoy
- Kilroy
- koi
- loy
- man and boy
- noy
- oe
- oy
- pick-me boy
- ploye
- po' boy
- puppyboy
- Savoie
- stroy
- sugoi
Questions about foy
- What does foy mean?
- Foy means faith, allegiance.
- What part of speech is foy?
- Foy can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of foy?
- The plural of foy is foys.
Words near foy in the dictionary
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