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fee-faw-fums

fee-faw-fums is the plural of fee-faw-fum.

Meaning of fee-faw-fum

Noun

fee-faw-fum (plural fee-faw-fums)

  1. A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.
    • 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 […]1908, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 102, page 823
  2. (archaic, broadly) Any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
    • J. H. Newman
      impudent fee-faw-fums

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Questions about fee-faw-fums

What is fee-faw-fums the plural of?
Fee-faw-fums is the plural of fee-faw-fum.

Words near fee-faw-fums in the dictionary

  1. fee simples determinable
  2. fee splitting
  3. fee splittings
  4. fee tail
  5. fee-faw-fum
  6. fee-faw-fums
  7. fee-fees
  8. fee-fi-fo-fum
  9. fee-for-service
  10. fee-simple
  11. fee-splitting

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