What exactly does "fee fi fo fum" mean?

Nothing nothing nothing nothing.

the same as hurr durr derp derp

Its just taking an F, and following it with 4 of the 5 vowels, to create gobbledegook words, that children would love, many many years ago in a far away land.

It’s just a nice alliterative nonsense phrase used as an incantation. (Or in other words, what @CyanoticWasp said.)

FEE FI FO FUM!

Your call to gooooood eatin’!

I believe it can be paraphrased as “shun the frumious bandersnatch.”

It involves a woman named Dyna Mo Hum and it starts with a C and rhymes with rum!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fie
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pah
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fume#Verb

It means “pass the beef” in neanderthal language.

As you said, it’s what you say when you smell the blood of an Englishman, duh.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR
In giant man language.

By the pricking of my thumb
Fee fi fo fum

Meat -loaf -does-blow! just a warning

Feel Finger Fornicate Fumble, I smell the blood of an Englisman.Just a little dirty talk my wife & I indulge in.She can climb on my stalk anytime she wishes, within reason of course.

i smell….THE FINGERPRINTS OF SCUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – ace ventura lololololol

It’s from King Lear. Edgar says:
Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.

I think it was bastardized from there

@filmfann, unless Shakespeare used it because he knew audiences would recognize it.

idk. but to me it means three, five, four, one.

i thinks thats a very interesting question.

Wikipedia has an interesting article on this subject.

@lucillelucillelucille Fee fi fo fum you’ve never had my meat loaf

@mrentropy -That’s what they all say…

@lucillelucillelucille I know. But I felt that since we’d gone around the meatloaf tree before I would be lax if I didn’t bring it up again :)

@mrentropy… mmmm @ the very idea of a “meat loaf tree”.

That would be one bizarre genetic experiment.

I am so confuzzled by all the meatloaf references on Fluther. Have I missed out on some great life experiince?