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Borrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
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.
Inherited from Latin fōcem, early monophthongized variant of faucem.
fou m (plural fous)
fou
- third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
- third-person singular preterite indicative of ésser
- “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.
Inherited from Middle French fol, from Old French fol, from Latin follem. Cognate with English fool.
fou (masculine singular before vowel fol, feminine folle, masculine plural fous, feminine plural folles)
- Louisiana Creole: fou
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.
- Mauritian Creole: fol
Derived from Spanish alfil, from Arabic اَلْفِيل (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.
fou m (plural fous)
Chess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) | |||||
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roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
- “fou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Inherited from French fou (“mad, crazy”).
fou m (feminine fòl)
Inherited from French four (“oven, stove”).
fou
- (an) oven
fou
fou
- Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
- Nonstandard spelling of fǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of fòu.
- 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.
fou (feminine fol)
fou (feminine fol)
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).
fou
- Scots: faw
- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
fou (plural fous)
- A kind of multicoloured fur.
- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
Inherited from Old French forn, from Latin furnus.
fou m (plural fous)
fou oblique singular, m (oblique plural fous, nominative singular fous, nominative plural fou)
- beech (tree)
- ⇒ French: fouet
fou
- Alternative spelling of fóu
fou
Derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.
fou
- new (recently made or created)
Derived from Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.
fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
fou
fou (plural fous)
fou
Possibly cognate to Ternate horu (“to paddle”).
fou
- (intransitive) to paddle
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 |
fou
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[1], Pacific linguistics