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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fu?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: -fu

Etymology 1

From Mandarin ? (f?).

Noun

foo (plural foos)

1. (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions.

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as ?? (Fúx?ng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the fannish ghod of mimeography. Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

Noun

foo (uncountable)

1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.

2. (fandom slang) Alternative letter-case form of Foo (“placeholder god”)

Derived terms

• foobar

Related terms

• FUBAR

Etymology 3

A minced form of fuck.

Interjection

foo

1. Expression of disappointment or disgust.

Synonyms

• (expression of disgust): darn, drat

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

• foo'

Noun

foo (plural foos)

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of fool.

References

• rfc:3092, Etymology of "Foo", Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Anagrams

• oof

Middle English

Etymology 1

From the oblique stem of Old English ?ef?h.

Noun

foo (plural foos)

1. Alternative form of fo

Etymology 2

From Old English f?, variant of f?h.

Adjective

foo

1. Alternative form of fo

Adverb

foo

1. Alternative form of fo

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *ho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????]

Adverb

foo

1. in, inside

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)

Tetum

Verb

foo

1. to stink

English

Noun

fos (uncountable)

1. Initialism of freedom of speech.

Anagrams

• OFs, SFO

Catalan

Etymology 1

Verb

fos

1. first-person singular past subjunctive form of ser
2. third-person singular past subjunctive form of ser

Etymology 2

From Latin f?sus.

Verb

fos

1. past participle of fondre

Hungarian

Etymology

From the same Finno-Ugric root *pa?ke as Mansi ??? (poš), Finnish paska and Estonian pask

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fo?]
• Hyphenation: fos
• Rhymes: -o?

Adjective

fos (comparative fosabb, superlative legfosabb)

1. (slang) shitty, worthless

Noun

fos (plural fosok)

1. (vulgar) liquid excrement

Declension

Related terms

• fosik

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish foss (“rest”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /f??s?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /f??s?/

Noun

fos m (genitive singular fois) (literary)

1. rest, a stop, a halt

   Synonym: sos

2. a prop, buttress, wall

Declension

Derived terms

• i bhfos
• lucht fois

Related terms

• abhus
• anois

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 foss, fos”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “fos” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 332.
• "fos" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle English

Noun

fos

1. plural of fo

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

Noun

fos

1. genitive plural of fosa

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *b??as, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *b??as, from Proto-Austronesian *b??as.

Noun

fos

1. rice ((raw) seeds used as food)