FIE

Definition: FIE

FIE

Interjection

1. An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FIE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

FIE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Disapprobation

Forbid it Heaven! God forbid, Heaven forbid! out upon, fie upon it! away with! tut! O tempora! O mores! shame! fie, fie for shame! out on you!

Disrepute

Interjection: fie! shame! for shame! proh pudor! O tempora! O mores! ough! sic transit gloria mundi!

Crosswords: FIE

French (relies), Romanian (all, be, well).

Fee Fie Foes (1961)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 1998 Frontiers in Education, Fie (reference)

• Die Staatphilosophie Giovanni Gentiles Und Fie Versuche Ihrer Verwirklichung Im Faschistischen Itali (reference)

• Fee Fie Fo Fun (reference)

• Fee, fie, foe, fum : a dictionary of fartology (reference)

• Fee, Fie, Phonemic Awareness: 130 Prereading Activities for Preschoolers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Acec Abc Fie - Cd-rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Fee Fie Foe Fum [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dusting planes (agricultural sprayers) fly mainly at dawn and dusk when the wind dies down. Their extreme proximity to the ground can turn any sudden gust of wind into an accident. They hedge-hop over obstacles, must remain low to the very edge of the fie. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grin and bear it. "...And I say fie on nitpickers of the president's budget who are already asking, 'what comes after a trillion?'". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Such reviews could conceivably be used to enforce forex balancing provisions in FIE contracts. (references)

Bonded warehouses may be established within the FIE and are subject to supervision by Customs. (references)

One requirement for free access to foreign exchange under the new regulations is that the FIE pass this annual review. (references)

Economic History

China

In general, the restrictions on FIE accounts are less onerous than for wholly Chinese-owned firms. (references)

China

In order to do so, an FIE must first apply to China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) for permission. (references)

Vietnam

Offshore Accounts: Subject to approval by the State Bank of Vietnam, an FIE can open an offshore bank account even if it is not related to a foreign loan. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "FIE": fie for shame! ♦ fie on you! ♦ fie upon it! away with! tut! O tempora! O mores! shame! fie ♦ fie upon you!. Additional references.

Beginning with "FIE": fie-fie, fie-fie!.

Ending with "FIE": fie-fie.

Albanian

turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude), i pahijshëm (bad, dirty, fie-fie, graceless, improper, indecent, indecorous, obscene, unbecoming, unchristian, unseemly, wry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нецензурен (dirty, fie-fie, hot, lewd, obscene, raunchy, raw, ribald, rich, ripe, smoking room, unquotable), не те е срам (fie upon you), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong). (various references)

Czech

projev nesouhlasu (fie-fie). (various references)

German

pfui!. (various references)

Greek 

ντροπή (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie-fie, reproach, shame), άπαγε (avaunt, begone, fie-fie). (various references)

Hungarian

szégyeldd magad! (fie upon you!), pfuj! (barf me out!, fie upon you!, fie!, hooey!), pfuj (fie upon you, for shame, phooey), illetlen (fie-fie, improper, indecent, indecorous, misbecoming, rank, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unseemly). (various references)

Italian

vergogna (bashfulness, disgrace, reproach, shame). (various references)

Pig Latin

iefay

Portuguese

vergonhoso (discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, fie-fie, ignominious, ill-spoken, infamous, inglorious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shy), inconveniente (abuse, drawback, fie-fie, harm, improper, incongruous, inconvenience, inconvenient, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inexpedient, inopportune, scurrilous, unbecoming, unbefitting, undesirable, unprintable, unseemly, unsuitable, untoward). (various references)

Romanian

vai (alack, alas, heigh-ho, lack, lax, my, oh, oh dear, oh me, ouch, well, woe), uf (ah, alas, ugh), sã-ţi fie ruşine (for shame, shame on you), pfui (pah, phew, pish, poh). (various references)

Russian 

фи (phi, pshaw). (various references)

Scottish

fich (an interjetion denoting "nasty"! English fie). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pfuj (fie-fie). (various references)

Spanish

indecente (dirty, fie-fie, foul, indecent, miserable, nasty, obscene, suggestive, unprintable). (various references)

Swedish

fy (bo, boh, boo, booh, oh, phew, ugh, yah, yuk). (various references)

Thai

คำอุทานแส�"งความไม่พอใจ (oi). (various references)

Turkish

yuh (boo, fie upon you, hoot), ayıp be (fie upon you). (various references)

Ukrainian

непристойний (bad, bawdy, beastly, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không thích hợp (fie-fie, ill-suited, improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruent, inopportune, misbecoming, unagreeable, unapt, unbesseming, unsuited), không thích đáng xấu hổ (fie-fie), đón mạt (fie-fie). (various references)

Welsh

ffei, wfft (for shame). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "FIE": fief, fiefdom, fiefdoms, fiefs, field, fielded, fielder, fielders, fieldfare, fieldfares, fielding, fieldpiece, fieldpieces, fields, fieldstone, fieldstones, fieldstrip, fieldstripped, fieldstripping, fieldstrips, fieldstript, fieldwork, fieldworks, fiend, fiendish, fiendishly, fiendishness, fiendishnesses, fiends, fierce, fiercely, fierceness, fiercenesses, fiercer, fiercest, fierier, fieriest, fierily, fieriness, fierinesses, fiery, fiesta, fiestas. (additional references)

Words ending with "FIE": waffie. (additional references)

Words containing "FIE": acetified, acetifies, acidified, acidifier, acidifiers, acidifies, aerified, aerifies, afield, airfield, airfields, alkalified, alkalifies, ammonified, ammonifies, amplified, amplifier, amplifiers, amplifies, archfiend, archfiends, argufied, argufier, argufiers, argufies, backfield, backfields, baffies, basified, basifier, basifiers, basifies, battlefield, battlefields, beatified, beatifies, beautified, beautifier, beautifiers, beautifies, beefier, beefiest, biffies, bourgeoisified, bourgeoisifies, brickfield, brickfields, brownfield, brownfields, brutified, brutifies. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ef, if.

+1 letter: defi, fice, fief, fife, file, fine, fire, five, kief, lief, life, neif, reif, rife, seif, wife.

+2 letters: afire, befit, brief, chief, defis, deify, edify, elfin, feign, feint, feist, felid, feria, fermi, fetid, fiber, fibre, fices, fiche, fidge, fiefs, field, fiend, fiery, fifed, fifer, fifes, filed, filer, files, filet, fille, fined, finer, fines, fique, fired, firer, fires, fiver, fives, fixed, fixer, fixes, flied, flier, flies, flite, fogie, fried, frier, fries, frise, grief, infer, kefir, kiefs, knife, lifer, neifs, refit, refix, reifs, reify, rifer, rifle, seifs, serif, thief, wifed, wifes.