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Fee-faw-fum   Listen
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Fee-faw-fum  n.  A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fee-faw-fum" Quotes from Famous Books



... is blue, Morbleu! Parbleu! And he'll certainly march to Moscow! And Counsellor Brougham was all in a fume At the thought of the march to Moscow: The Russians, he said, they were undone, And the great Fee-Faw-Fum Would presently come, With a hop, step, and jump, unto London, For, as for his conquering Russia, However some persons might scoff it, Do it he could, do it he would, And from doing it nothing would come but good, And nothing could call him off it. Mr. ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various



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