Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
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- noun A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.
- noun by extension Any
expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
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Examples
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She had a vision of herself as an ogre -- whiskers sprouted all over her face, her ears bulged and swaggled, her voice became a cavernous rumble, her conversation sounded like fee-faw-fum -- and yet, her brothers were not afraid of her in the least; they pinched her and kicked her hat.
Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916
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He would return with their seven heads swinging pitifully from his girdle, and, when he reached the castle gates, he would gnash his teeth through the keyhole with a noise like the grinding together of great rocks, and would poke his head through the fanlight of the door, and say, fee-faw-fum in a voice of such exceeding loudness that the castle would be shaken to its foundation.
Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916
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It sounds like the fee-faw-fum and mummery of a voodoo man. "
Guy Garrick 1908
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It sounds like the fee-faw-fum and mummery of a voodoo man. "
Guy Garrick 1908
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It sounds like the fee-faw-fum and mummery of a voodoo man. "
Guy Garrick 1908
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Shut your eyes, and say, ` Raw-head-and-bloody-bones, fee-faw-fum 'three times, and then look up in the mow just over your own head.”
Dora Darling 1865
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My uncle will be here directly, "she added, in a fee-faw-fum tone.
Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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