fou
English edit
Etymology edit
From Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
Adjective edit
fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)
- (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.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin fōcem, early monophthongized variant of faucem.
Noun edit
fou m (plural fous)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
fou
- third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
- third-person singular preterite indicative of ésser
References edit
- “fou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fou” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Louisiana Creole: fou
Noun edit
fou m (plural fous, feminine folle)
- madman
- jester (court entertainer)
- (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
- Synonym: malade
- C’est un fou de voile. ― He's a sailing nut.
Derived terms edit
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)
See also edit
Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) | |||||
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roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
Further reading edit
- “fou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Louisiana Creole edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from French fou (“mad, crazy”).
Adjective edit
fou m (feminine fòl)
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from French four (“oven, stove”).
Noun edit
fou
- (an) oven
Luxembourgish edit
Verb edit
fou
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
fou
- Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
- Nonstandard spelling of fǒu.
- 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
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fou (feminine fol)
Adjective edit
fou (feminine fol)
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).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fou
Descendants edit
- Scots: faw
References edit
- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
Noun edit
fou (plural fous)
- A kind of multicoloured fur.
References edit
- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
Norman edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.
Noun edit
fou m (plural fous)
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fou oblique singular, m (oblique plural fous, nominative singular fous, nominative plural fou)
- beech (tree)
Descendants edit
- ⇒ French: fouet
Old Irish edit
Pronoun edit
fou
- Alternative spelling of fóu
Romanian edit
Interjection edit
fou
References edit
Samoan edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.
Adjective edit
fou
- 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)
- full
- well-fed, full of food or drink, sated, replete
- drunk, intoxicated
- 1789, Robert Burns, Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut:
- We are na fou, we're nae that fou, / But just a drappie in our ee;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adverb edit
fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
fou
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
fou (plural fous)
Tsou edit
Noun edit
fou
West Makian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly cognate to Ternate horu (“to paddle”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fou
- (intransitive) to paddle
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fou (action verb) | ||||
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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
References edit
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[1], Pacific linguistics
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