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English

Etymology

From Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.

Adjective

fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)

1. (Scotland) Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

Anagrams

• UFO, ufo

Catalan

Verb

fou

1. third-person singular preterite indicative form of ser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu/
• Homophones: fous, fout, foux

Etymology 1

From Middle French fol, from Old French fol, from Latin follis, follem. Cognate with English fool.

Adjective

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

1. mad, crazy

Derived terms

Noun

fou m (plural fous, feminine folle)

1. madman
2. (court entertainer) jester

Derived terms

Related terms

• folie
• folle

Descendants

• Mauritian Creole: fol

Etymology 2

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

Noun

fou m (plural fous)

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

See also

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ouf

Luxembourgish

Verb

fou

1. second-person singular imperative of fouen

Mandarin

Romanization

fou

1. Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of f?u.

Usage notes

• 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.

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu/

Etymology

From French fou

Noun

fou (feminine fol)

1. (masculine) mad, crazy person

Adjective

fou (feminine fol)

1. (masculine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagla

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) foa?e, va?e, fo?, foh, fau
• fow, fowe, fogh, vouh, fawe, fay

Etymology

From Old English f?g, alternative form of f?h, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?u?/, /f?u?x/
• Rhymes: -?u?

Adjective

fou

1. multicoloured, stippled

Descendants

• Scots: faw

References

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

Noun

fou (plural fous)

1. A kind of multicoloured fur.

References

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

Norman

Alternative forms

• four (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.

Noun

fou m (plural fous)

1. (Jersey) oven

Old French

Alternative forms

• fau

Etymology

From Latin fagus.

Noun

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

1. beech (tree)

Descendants

• French: fouet

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baq??u, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baq??uh.

Adjective

fou

1. new (recently made or created)

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.

Adjective

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

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

Adverb

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

1. fully, very, quite, rather, too

Etymology 2

Noun

fou

1. saxifrage

Etymology 3

Noun

fou (plural fous)

1. bushel

English

Etymology

From Middle French foy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

foy (countable and uncountable, plural foys)

1. (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
2. (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
   • 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, 2006, Echo Library, page 124,

     To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French foi.

Noun

foy f (plural foys)

1. faith
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     Saigneur Dieu oste moy de ce torment, auquel ces traitres chiens me detiennent, pour la maintenance de ta foy.

     Lord God remove me from this torment in which these traiterous dogs are holding, to help me keep your faith.

Descendants

• French: foi

Portuguese

Verb

foy

1. Obsolete spelling of foi