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fou

See also: Fou, fóu, fǒu, and -fou

English edit

Etymology edit

From Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.

Adjective edit

fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)

  1. (Scotland) Drunk.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 110:
      Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou 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 edit

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin fōcem, early monophthongized variant of faucem.

Noun edit

fou m (plural fous)

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

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

fou

  1. third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
  2. third-person singular preterite indicative of ésser

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French edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Middle French fol, from Old French fol, from Latin follem. Cognate with English fool.

Adjective edit

fou (masculine singular before vowel fol, feminine folle, masculine plural fous, feminine plural folles)

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

Noun edit

fou m (plural fous, feminine folle)

  1. madman
  2. jester (court entertainer)
  3. (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
    Synonym: malade
    C’est un fou de voile. ― He's a sailing nut.
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Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Mauritian Creole: fol

Etymology 2 edit

From Spanish alfil, from Arabic اَلْفِيل (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.

Noun edit

fou m (plural fous)

  1. (chess) bishop
  2. booby (bird)

See also edit

Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text)
           
roi dame tour fou cavalier pion

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Louisiana Creole edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from French fou (“mad, crazy”).

Adjective edit

fou m (feminine fòl)

  1. crazy, mad

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from French four (“oven, stove”).

Noun edit

fou

  1. (an) oven

Luxembourgish edit

Verb edit

fou

  1. second-person singular imperative of fouen

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

fou

  1. Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of fǒu.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of fòu.

Usage notes edit

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

Mauritian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French fou.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fou (feminine fol)

  1. (masculine) mad, crazy person

Adjective edit

fou (feminine fol)

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

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old English fāh, from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

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

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Adjective edit

fou

  1. multicoloured, stippled

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Noun edit

fou (plural fous)

  1. A kind of multicoloured fur.

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Norman edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.

Noun edit

fou m (plural fous)

  1. (Jersey) oven

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin fagus.

Noun edit

fou oblique singular, m (oblique plural fous, nominative singular fous, nominative plural fou)

  1. beech (tree)

Descendants edit

Old Irish edit

Pronoun edit

fou

  1. Alternative spelling of fóu

Romanian edit

Interjection edit

fou

  1. Obsolete form of fă.

References edit

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

Samoan edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.

Adjective edit

fou

  1. new (recently made or created)

Scots edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

Adjective edit

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

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

Adverb edit

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

  1. fully, very, quite, rather, too

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

fou

  1. saxifrage

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

fou (plural fous)

  1. bushel

Tsou edit

Noun edit

fou

  1. animal meat

West Makian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Possibly cognate to Ternate horu (“to paddle”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fou

  1. (intransitive) to paddle
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fou (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tofou mofou afou
2nd person nofou fofou
3rd person inanimate ifou dofou
animate
imperative nofou, fou fofou, fou

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fou

  1. betel leaf

References edit

  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[1], Pacific linguistics
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