fie

«fie» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: shame! — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

shame!

part of speech

interjection

meaning for a pupil

an exclamation that shows disgust or disapproval. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say shame or yuck.

examples

• "Fie on the villain that forsook her!" (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →
• His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• “Fie!” said he. “How naughty a boy Cupid is! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 16 (Torah 0, tales 16, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.8 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fie» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.