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foys

foys is the plural of foy.

Meaning of foy

Noun

foy (countable and uncountable, plural foys)

  1. (obsolete, rare) 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
  2. (obsolete) 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Foys

Foys

  1. (plural) plural of Foy

Questions about foys

What is foys the plural of?
Foys is the plural of foy.
What part of speech is foys?
Foys is a proper noun.

Words near foys in the dictionary

  1. foyles
  2. Foyleside
  3. foyling
  4. Foynes
  5. Foyot sauce
  6. foys
  7. foyson
  8. foysons
  9. foyst
  10. foysts
  11. Foz

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