faydom

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From fay (“fairy”) +‎ -dom.

Noun[edit]

faydom (uncountable)

  1. The realm or sphere of faerie.
    • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household words:
      [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.
    • 1998, George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz:
      He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom.

Etymology 2[edit]

From fay (“fated, doomed”) +‎ -dom.

Noun[edit]

faydom (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of feydom
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