fee-faw-fum
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.
noun
A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.
Example Sentences
- "Fee-Faw-Fum!—— I ſmell the Blood of an Engliſh-Man; Whether he be alive or dead, I'll grind his Bones to make my Bread."
- "The kindly fee-faw-fums of childhood, how many delicious shivers we owe them; the Things that stood behind doors, that trooped into the church when the congregation went out, that lurked in closet corners and under the bed […]"
- "J. H. Newman impudent fee-faw-fums"
- "One of the most successful fee-faw-fums worked off on the prospective patients of mine for the past twenty-five years has been: “If you go to Tilden, he will starve you to death.”"