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fie-fie, a.|faɪfaɪ|
Also fi-fi.
[f. fie by doubling.]
Jocularly used for: Improper, of improper character.
1812G. Colman Br. Grins, Two Parsons vii, What would [if we were sinless] become of all the fie-fie ladies? 1837T. Hook Jack Brag xiv, There is such a long fie-fie story about that. 1860Trollope Framley P. vi, One or two fie-fie little anecdotes about a married lady. 1873St. Paul's Mag. Jan. 9 She was rather fifi.
Hence fie-fie n., a woman of tarnished reputation. fie-fie v. (a) intr. To say Fie! (b) trans. To say Fie! to.
1820Lady Granville Let. 25 Aug. (1894) I. 164 A mixture of..Dowager Lansdowne, fye-fyes, and venerable peers. 1836Libr. Fiction I. 371 In ‘fie, fieing’ the excesses of divers gentlemen. 1892Punch 13 Aug. 72/2 Purists may fie-fie, or sneer. |