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See also:Appendix:Variations of "fou"

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromScotsfou. Comparefull, adoublet.

Adjective

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fou (comparativemorefou,superlativemostfou)

  1. (Scotland)Drunk.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:drunk
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney,The Heretic, page110:
      Shand's father had missed the whole thing — gettingfou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromLatinfōcem, early monophthongized variant offaucem.

Noun

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fou m (pluralfous)

  1. (archaic) a narrow cove
  2. a narrow passage, aravine
    Synonym:barranc

Etymology 2

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Verb

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fou

  1. third-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofser
  2. third-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofésser

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfol, fromOld Frenchfol, fromLatinfollem. Cognate withEnglishfool.

Adjective

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fou (masculine singular before vowelfol,femininefolle,masculine pluralfousor(obsolete)foux,feminine pluralfolles)

  1. mad,crazy
    Synonyms:folle,dingue,loufoque,cinglé,farfelu,détraqué,maboul,louf,ouf,cinglé,cintré,taré,dingo
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Louisiana Creole:fou

Noun

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fou m (pluralfousor(obsolete)foux,femininefolle)

  1. madman
    Synonyms:taré,débile
  2. jester(court entertainer)
  3. (colloquial)nut(extreme enthusiast)
    Synonym:malade
    C'est unfou de voile. ―He's a sailing nut.
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Related terms

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Descendants

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  • Mauritian Creole:fol

Etymology 2

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Derived fromSpanishalfil, fromArabicاَلْفِيل(al-fīl,“elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1 in the sense of "court jester."

Noun

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fou m (pluralfous)

  1. (chess)bishop
    • 2023 April, “Les règles du jeu d’échecs 2023”, inFIDE‎[1], page 3:
      Deuxfous blancs habituellement représentés par le symbole (F)[…] Unfou peut se déplacer sur n’importe quelle case le long d’une des diagonales sur lesquelles il se trouve.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
  2. booby(bird)

See also

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Chess pieces in French ·pièces d'échecs(layout ·text)
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Louisiana Creole

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromFrenchfou(“mad, crazy”).

Adjective

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fou m (femininefòl)

  1. crazy,mad

Etymology 2

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Inherited fromFrenchfour(“oven, stove”).

Noun

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fou

  1. (an)oven

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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fou

  1. second-personsingularimperative offouen

Mandarin

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Romanization

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fou

  1. nonstandard spelling offóu
  2. nonstandard spelling offǒu
  3. nonstandard spelling offòu

Usage notes

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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Derived fromFrenchfou.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fou (femininefol)

  1. (masculine)madman(amad,crazy male person)

Adjective

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fou (femininefol)

  1. (masculine)mad,crazy,insane
    Synonym:pagla

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Englishfāh, fromProto-West Germanic*faih, fromProto-Germanic*faihaz.

Forms without final/x/ are a result of levelling from Old English inflected forms (e.g., masculine weak nominative singularfāga).

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Adjective

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fou

  1. multicoloured /multicolored,stippled

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Noun

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fou (pluralfous)

  1. A kind of multicolouredfur.

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Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchforn, fromLatinfurnus.

Noun

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fou m (pluralfous)

  1. (Jersey)oven

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinfagus.

Noun

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fouoblique singular, m (oblique pluralfous,nominative singularfous,nominative pluralfou)

  1. beech(tree)

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Old Irish

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Pronoun

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fou

  1. alternative spelling offóu

Romanian

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Interjection

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fou

  1. obsolete form offă

References

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  • fou in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

Samoan

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Etymology

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Derived fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*(ma-)baqəʀu, fromProto-Austronesian*(ma-)baqəʀuh.

Adjective

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fou

  1. new(recently made or created)

Scots

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Etymology 1

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishful, fromOld Englishfull, fromProto-West Germanic*full, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós.

Adjective

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fou (comparativemair fou,superlativemaist fou)

  1. full
  2. well-fed, full of food or drink,sated,replete
  3. drunk,intoxicated

Adverb

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fou (comparativemair fou,superlativemaist fou)

  1. fully,very,quite,rather,too

Etymology 2

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Noun

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fou

  1. saxifrage

Etymology 3

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Noun

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fou (pluralfous)

  1. bushel

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Noun

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fou

  1. animalmeat

West Makian

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Etymology 1

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Possibly cognate toTernatehoru(“to paddle”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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fou

  1. (intransitive) topaddle
Conjugation
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Conjugation offou (action verb)
singularplural
inclusiveexclusive
1st persontofoumofouafou
2nd personnofoufofou
3rd personinanimateifoudofou
animate
imperativenofou,foufofou,fou

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fou

  1. betel leaf

References

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  • James Collins (1982),Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[2], Pacific linguistics
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