fie
/faɪ/
fie interjection: sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
Interjection
- Sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
- Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...
fie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit
fie in Hindi
- fie
- धत dhat
fie in Tamil
- fie, pish, yuck, ew, bletch
- சீ cī
fie in Urdu
- چھی, پھٹ, توبہ
fie in Sanskrit
- fie; shame on
- धिक् dhik
More languagesFewer languages
- fie in Persian
- شه šoh, تفو tofu, ویک vik
Examples of fie in a sentence
- "Fie upon them, forgetting their philosophy!"1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- I pleaded with my companions to spare his life, and they said, ‘Fie! shame upon you!1920 March, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff (quote sourced to Kim Soan), “Formosa the Beautiful”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C....
- But the orthodox scientific world says fie! to the religious impulse.1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 4:
Forms of fie
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Origin of fie
From Middle English fy, from Old French fi, from Latin fī. (with a possible additional influence from Old Norse). Compare Swedish fy.
Words formed from fie
Words that rhyme with fie
Questions about fie
- What does fie mean?
- Fie means sometimes followed by on or upon: used to express distaste, disgust, or outrage.
- What is fie in Hindi?
- Fie in Hindi is धत (dhat). See Fie meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fie in a sentence?
- "Fie upon them, forgetting their philosophy!"
- What part of speech is fie?
- Fie is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce fie?
- Fie is pronounced /faɪ/.
Words near fie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fie (page history and authors); धत (Hindi) (page history and authors); சீ (Tamil) (page history and authors); Fie (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); धिक् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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