fufu
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom West African languages such as Ewe, fufú (“white-white”).
Noun
editfufu (uncountable)
- A dish of boiled, mashed cassava mixed with plantain, yams, or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and Equatorial Africa and the Caribbean, and sometimes sold in dry powdered or granulated form.
- [1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa. This is topped with a sauce known as palava.]
- 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 192:
- “I want some real food,” Binta angrily said. “Like fufu and egusi soup.”
Alternative forms
editSynonyms
edit- (dish of yams etc): choke-me (Caribbean)
References
edit- Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Robert Brock Le Page (editors), Dictionary of Jamaican English, Second Edition, University of the West Indies Press (2002), page 185.
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Japanese ふふ (fufu, onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter; compare English haha).
Interjection
editfufu
Bura
editNoun
editfufu
References
edit- Schuh, Russel G.; Shalanguwa, Elisha. Bura-English-Hausa Dictionary
Krio
editEtymology
editFrom any of various African languages that share this word.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfùfú