Fi-fi

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Scandalous; immoral; applied to literature and stories. dated

    "Virtuous, orthodox, unromantic, respectable, they had not the makings of an Ibsen play or a fi-fi novel among them."

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"Virtuous, orthodox, unromantic, respectable, they had not the makings of an Ibsen play or a fi-fi novel among them."

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