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Definition of Feejee

Feejee
Feejee Fee"jee, a. & n. (Ethnol) See Fijian.
Feejee
Fijian Fi"ji*an, a. Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants. -- n. A native of the Fiji islands. [Written also Feejeean, Feejee.]

Meaning of Feejee from wikipedia

- The Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) was an object composed of the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish. It was a common...
- first promulgated by Captain James Cook, that these islands are now known. "Feejee", the Anglicised spelling of the Tongan pronunciation, occurred in accounts...
- of Cookery. Black Dog. ISBN 978-1-906155-50-6. Jan Bondeson (1999). The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History. Cornell University...
- York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-96509-1. Bondeson, Jan (1999). The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History. Ithaca, NY: Cornell...
- Dutch East India Company by this time (cf. Bartholin's siren). Mummies (Feejee mermaids) were certainly being manufactured in ****an in some quantity by...
- October 21, 2002. Retrieved August 23, 2016. "New Orleans, Louisiana: Feejee Mermaid, Animal Freaks (Closed)". RoadsideAmerica.com. January 24, 2007...
- Sleeping Buri, Built at Vewa, For the favourite little son of Namosemalua, Feejee" (PDF). The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering: A Miscellany of Missionary Information...
- creature with the body of a monkey and the tail of a fish known as the "Feejee" mermaid. He leased it from fellow museum owner Moses Kimball of Boston...
- also preserved ningyo being manufactured using fish parts (§Mummies or Feejee mermaids), and illustrated by some scholars of the period (e.g. §Baien gyofu);...
- 2024-05-10. Fijian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) "Bau, the capital of Feejee". Wesleyan Juvenile Offering. V. London: Wesleyan Mission-House: 120. November...