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Borrowed fromScotsfou. Comparefull, adoublet.
fou (comparativemorefou,superlativemostfou)
- (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.
Inherited fromLatinfōcem, early monophthongized variant offaucem.
fou m (pluralfous)
- (archaic) a narrow cove
- a narrow passage, aravine
- Synonym:barranc
fou
- third-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofser
- third-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofésser
- “fou”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “fou”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
- “fou” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fou” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchfol, fromOld Frenchfol, fromLatinfollem. Cognate withEnglishfool.
fou (masculine singular before vowelfol,femininefolle,masculine pluralfousor(obsolete)foux,feminine pluralfolles)
- mad,crazy
- Synonyms:folle,dingue,loufoque,cinglé,farfelu,détraqué,maboul,louf,ouf,cinglé,cintré,taré,dingo
fou m (pluralfousor(obsolete)foux,femininefolle)
- madman
- jester(court entertainer)
- (colloquial)nut(extreme enthusiast)
- Synonym:malade
- C'est unfou de voile. ―He's a sailing nut.
Derived fromSpanishalfil, fromArabicاَلْفِيل(al-fīl,“elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.
fou m (pluralfous)
- (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)
- booby(bird)
Inherited fromFrenchfou(“mad, crazy”).
fou m (femininefòl)
- crazy,mad
Inherited fromFrenchfour(“oven, stove”).
fou
- (an)oven
fou
- second-personsingularimperative offouen
fou
- nonstandard spelling offóu
- nonstandard spelling offǒu
- nonstandard spelling offòu
- 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.
Derived fromFrenchfou.
fou (femininefol)
- (masculine)madman(amad,crazy male person)
fou (femininefol)
- (masculine)mad,crazy,insane
- Synonym:pagla
- fawe,fay,fogh,fow,fowe,vouh
- fah,fau,foaȝe,foȝ,foh,vaȝe(Early Middle English)
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).
fou
- multicoloured /multicolored,stippled
fou (pluralfous)
- A kind of multicolouredfur.
Inherited fromOld Frenchforn, fromLatinfurnus.
fou m (pluralfous)
- (Jersey)oven
Inherited fromLatinfagus.
fouoblique singular, m (oblique pluralfous,nominative singularfous,nominative pluralfou)
- beech(tree)
fou
- alternative spelling offóu
fou
- obsolete form offă
- fou in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN
Derived fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*(ma-)baqəʀu, fromProto-Austronesian*(ma-)baqəʀuh.
fou
- new(recently made or created)
Inherited fromMiddle Englishful, fromOld Englishfull, fromProto-West Germanic*full, fromProto-Germanic*fullaz, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós.
fou (comparativemair fou,superlativemaist fou)
- full
- well-fed, full of food or drink,sated,replete
- drunk,intoxicated
fou (comparativemair fou,superlativemaist fou)
- fully,very,quite,rather,too
fou
- saxifrage
fou (pluralfous)
- bushel
fou
- animalmeat
Possibly cognate toTernatehoru(“to paddle”).
fou
- (intransitive) topaddle
fou
- betel leaf
- James Collins (1982),Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[2], Pacific linguistics
