词汇 | fee-faw-fum |
词源 | fee-faw-fum. The famous words of the giant in the old fairy tales “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Jack the Giant-Killer” are “Fee-faw-fum, I smell the blood of a British man.” Shakespeare, however, uses Fie, foh, and fum, while many Americans re- member hearing Fee-fie-foe-fum when the story was read to them. |
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