Feh vs Fee - What's the difference?
feh | fee |
An expression of disgust or contempt.
* Linda Glaser, Bridge to America: Based on a True Story (2005) p. 116:
* Sidney Weissman, East Side Stories: Tales of Jewish Life in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1930’s (2000) p. 100:
* Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine (1980) p. 81:
(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
* Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)
* 1915 , :
(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:
A monetary payment charged for professional services.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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* Herman Melville, Omoo
As an interjection feh
is an expression of disgust or contempt.As a noun fee is
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English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Kvola made a face. "It’s worse than an outhouse." She covered her nose. "Uh!" "It is" "''Feh !''" We all agreed and covered our noses. But Ma wasn't interested in our complaints.
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- It smelled like rotten food, stinking bodies, and stale air. ''Feh !
- "A gangster. Feh ! Disgusting” she said roughly grabbing Marty by the arm. "We go across the street."
- "Look at it, how its pale skin blotches — and that evil-smelling thatch on top. Feh ! The smell!
Usage notes
Usually followed by an exclamation point.Anagrams
*fee
English
Noun
(en noun)- Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .
- What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee .
- Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.
- For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Verb
- The patient . . . fees the doctor.
- There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed .
- We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.