# What is "feh"?

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**Created:** [April 20, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651 "2001-04-20T08:02:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/1 "2001-04-20T08:02:47Z")

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I see this on the boards sometimes and can’t figure out what it means.

Can someone clue me in?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/2 "2001-04-20T08:05:35Z")

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It is a general grunt of dismissal or disaproval. It is pronounced exactly as it is spelled.

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**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/3 "2001-04-20T08:56:10Z")

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Wow. That was fast.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/4 "2001-04-20T10:19:18Z")

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**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/5 "2001-04-20T12:30:51Z")

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Nu, it’s just a word! Don’t get your tuchis all farmisht. You say it if some goniff or knacker (or even a schnorrer or nudnik) should cause you to shvitz or makes a tsurris. Even a sheygets like me will use it on occasion, when I’m driven meshugge.

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**Author:** ![Cue017](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cue017](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cue017)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/6 "2001-04-20T13:42:29Z")

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Define ‘farmisht’

You can probably guess what that word looked like at first glance.

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/7 "2001-04-20T17:04:33Z")

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> **Nu** , it’s just a word! Don’t get your **tuchis** all **farmisht**. You say it if some **goniff** or **knacker** (or even a **schnorrer** or **nudnik** ) should cause you to **shvitz** or makes a **tsurris**. Even a **sheygets** like me will use it on occasion, when I’m driven **meshugge**.

Okay, vocabulary whiz that I am, now I feel totally inadequate.  
What’n the heck do the bolded words mean? I’m assuming Yiddish or something to that effect?

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**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/8 "2001-04-20T23:01:00Z")

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Feh, it’s Yiddish alright. Try here: [http://hebrew.about.com/homework/hebrew/library/blyiddisha.htm](http://hebrew.about.com/homework/hebrew/library/blyiddisha.htm)

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/9 "2001-04-21T01:10:34Z")

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“Did someone here say ‘schnorrer’?”  
–Capt. Spaulding

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**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-feh/62651/10 "2001-04-22T09:00:33Z")

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Oi! I need to take a **dreck.**

Feh.