Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express distaste or disapproval.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An interjection expressing contempt, dislike, disapprobation, or impatience, and sometimes surprise.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
fee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See
fy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection archaic Used to express
distaste ,disgust , oroutrage .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, nearly everyone to whom I have recently mentioned the Moon & Sixpence called fie upon its name, so I guess I'm not going there.
Archive 2005-10-01 Tripp 2005
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Castlewood — orphan of his son, ruined by his fidelity, bearing many wounds and marks of bravery, old and in exile — his kinsmen I suppose should be silent; nor if this patriarch fell down in his cups, call fie upon him, and fetch passers-by to laugh at his red face and white hairs.
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About the King's follower, the Viscount Castlewood -- orphan of his son, ruined by his fidelity, bearing many wounds and marks of bravery, old and in exile -- his kinsmen I suppose should be silent; nor if this patriarch fell down in his cups, call fie upon him, and fetch passers-by to laugh at his red face and white hairs.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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I knew all my little world would shriek "fie," and "for shame" into my ears, and all because I was bent on working out a new theory.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. Various
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To have been in that eddy is a freemasonry of which the common password is a "fie" on all the operations of the simple popular understanding.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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Show all the package versions: aptitude - V install 'fie'
LXer Linux News 2008
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$ aptitude search 'fie' dpkg dpkg is rather like RPM, because it operates on individual packages without tracking dependencies.
LXer Linux News 2008
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A great fie … ld in which one star has, to date, shone more brightly with more groups.
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Most of the water in the middle of the lake will be fie to six-feet deep when the water is running one unit, so fish it six - to seven - feet deep.
All About Jigs 2009
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One way or the other, when it comes to factory farms, I'm going to get my fie on.
Suzan Colón: Organic Egg on Our Faces Suzan Colón 2010
widdershins commented on the word fie
I fie upon you!
October 4, 2007
kewpid commented on the word fie
fee fie foe fum!
October 4, 2007
hugobeng commented on the word fie
It's interesting that current Swedish has "fy" (pronounced the same) with close if not equal meaning, as in the expression "fy fan" (fan being the Devil).
September 21, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word fie
Sheep. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
May 18, 2011
bilby commented on the word fie
fee sheep fo fum!
May 18, 2011