fi-fi

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See also: fifi, Fifi, and fifí

English

Etymology

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Adjective

fi-fi (comparative more fi-fi, superlative most fi-fi)

  1. (dated) Scandalous; immoral; applied to literature and stories.
    • 1897, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Dulcie Everton, page 34:
      Virtuous, orthodox, unromantic, respectable, they had not the makings of an Ibsen play or a fi-fi novel among them.
    • 1985 October 20, Michael M. Thomas, “Tough Times for the Fi-Fi Novel”, in The New York Times:

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) “Thackeray's term for Paul de Kock's novels, and similar modern French literature.”, in The Slang Dictionary
  • Isaac Kaufman Funk (1894) “Scandalous; immoral; as, a fi-fi novel or anecdote.”, in A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, page 677
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