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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fie/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fie/#x1)
- His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fie/#x2)
- “Fie!” said he. “How naughty a boy Cupid is! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fie/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/fie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.