fou

fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)

1. (Scotland) Drunk.

• See Thesaurus:drunk

• UFO, ufo

fou

1. third-person singular preterite indicative form of ser

• IPA^(key): /fu/

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From Middle French fol, from Old French fol, from Latin follis, follem.

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

1. mad, crazy

fou m (plural fous, feminine folle)

1. madman
2. (court entertainer) jester

• folie
• folle

• Mauritian Creole: fol

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

fou m (plural fous)

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

• “fou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ouf

fou

1. second-person singular imperative of fouen

fou

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /fu/

From French fou

fou (feminine fol)

1. (masculine) mad, crazy person

fou (feminine fol)

1. (masculine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagla

• (Early ME) foaȝe, vaȝe, foȝ, foh, fau
• fow, fowe, fogh, vouh, fawe, fay

From Old English fāg, alternative form of fāh, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

• IPA^(key): /fɔu̯/, /fɔu̯x/
• Rhymes: -ɔu̯

fou

1. multicoloured, stippled

• Scots: faw

• “fou (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.

fou (plural fous)

1. A kind of multicoloured fur.

• “fou (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.

• four (Guernsey)

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.

fou m (plural fous)

1. (Jersey) oven

• fau

From Latin fagus.

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

1. beech (tree)

• French: fouet

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

fou

1. new (recently made or created)

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

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

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

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

1. fully, very, quite, rather, too

fou

1. saxifrage

fou (plural fous)

1. bushel