Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express distaste or disapproval.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An interjection expressing contempt, dislike, disapprobation, or impatience, and sometimes surprise.
- n. An obsolete or dialectal form of fee.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See fy.
Etymologies
- Middle English fi, from Old French, of imitative origin.
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“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.”
“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.”
“Show all the package versions: aptitude - V install 'fie”
“$ aptitude search 'fie' dpkg dpkg is rather like RPM, because it operates on individual packages without tracking dependencies.”
“A great fie … ld in which one star has, to date, shone more brightly with more groups.”
“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.”
“One way or the other, when it comes to factory farms, I'm going to get my fie on.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fie’.
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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•Words We Use Here That Would Tick Off Dr. Good...
Or, Things That Get a Whole Lot More Fun With an -ie Ending.
See conversation on git, and have at it!
Edit: Many of the following are madeupical, but many are not. See als...wordie, foodie, roadie, cookie, prosie, poetrie, tunie, scriptie, democracie, pompous old gittie, funnie, hippie and 156 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 390 more...
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Nice archaic words
oneiric, tisane, pecksniffian, eftsoons, forsooth, egad, ensorcell, zounds, fie, huzzah, consarn it, prithee and 2 more...
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Daily
Words picked up as I go
kaleidoscopic, illiterate, fie, dehisce, shiester, amalgamation, immunodeficiency, coup d'état, fascism, platitudinous, xenophobia, sanctimonious and 4 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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The Quintessential Quibble...and Other Stories
those simple yet totally awesome words we love :)
spackle, barnacle, phagocytosis, goose, eschew, taradiddle, fie
bilby fee sheep fo fum! May 17, 2011
hernesheir Sheep. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. May 17, 2011
hugobeng 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). Sep 21, 2008
kewpid fee fie foe fum! Oct 4, 2007
widdershins I fie upon you! Oct 4, 2007