Fee (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Fee

FAW, FUM. Nonsensical words, supposed in childish story-books to be spoken by giants. I am not to be frighted by fee, faw, fum; I am not to be scared by nonsense.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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