fee-faw-fum

A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.

A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.

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 […]

Any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.

J. H. Newman impudent fee-faw-fums

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.”