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affy

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
12
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/əˈfaɪ/
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/əˈfaɪ/ · /ˈæfi/

Definition of affy

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To have faith in (someone); to trust.
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To have faith in (someone); to trust.
  2. (obsolete, transitive)Chiefly followed by that or to: to formally affirm or promise (something).
  3. (obsolete, transitive)Chiefly of a man: to formally promise to marry (someone, chiefly a woman); to be engaged to; also, to marry (someone); to espouse.
    “He, though affide unto a former love, / To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold, / […] Her graunted love, but with affection cold […]”
  4. (obsolete, transitive)Chiefly followed by to, unto, or with: often of a parent or guardian: to formally promise that (someone) be married to another person; to affiance, to betroth.
  5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Followed by in, to, or unto: to bind or pledge (someone or something) to another person or thing.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete)Chiefly followed by in, on, and upon: to rely on, to trust.
    “Marcus Andronicus, so I do affie / In thy vprightnesse and Integrity […]”

noun

  1. (obsolete, slang)An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.
    “If you have won a monthly prize, they will send you an affy and have you send it back. Then your prize comes from a courier.”
    “The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th.”

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Etymology

From Middle English affien (“to have faith, trust”), from Anglo-Norman afier, affier, affyer, Middle French afier, affier, affyer, and Old French afier (“to agree to marry; to believe, trust; to…

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From Middle English affien (“to have faith, trust”), from Anglo-Norman afier, affier, affyer, Middle French afier, affier, affyer, and Old French afier (“to agree to marry; to believe, trust; to assure, promise; to confide in; to pledge, swear”), from Late Latin affidare (“to betroth; to pledge faith”), from Latin af- (a variant of ad- (intensifying prefix)) + Vulgar Latin *fīdāre (“to trust”) (from Latin fidēre, the present active infinitive of fīdō (“to put confidence in, trust; to rely upon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to convince; to trust”)).

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