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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Fi,fo,fee
Hi everybody...can you help me find out the meaning of these words, I heard them in a movie Father playing hide and seek with the kids. Are they numbers, I don´t know ??
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They're nonsense. They don't mean anything. "
- They're nonsense.
- They don't mean anything.
- "
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They're nonsense. They don't mean anything.
Sounds kind of like the verse from "Jack and the Beanstalk": "Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!"
Sounds kind of like the verse from "Jack and the Beanstalk": "Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!"
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Cf. the version in King Lear, III iv: "Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man". It would not surprise me to discover they were counting rhymes.
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