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 […]
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Fee-faw-fum
Synonyms for "fee-faw-fum" (28 found)
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Translations
5 translations across 3 languages.
Italian
1 entries- ucci-ucci intj (exclamation attributed to giants and ogres)
Russian
1 entries- фу-фу intj (exclamation attributed to giants and ogres)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- fiù fomha fomhagraich intj (exclamation attributed to giants and ogres)
- hì hua huagaich intj (exclamation attributed to giants and ogres)
- hì hò hù huagaich intj (exclamation attributed to giants and ogres)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
J. H. Newman impudent fee-faw-fums
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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.”
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