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foud
English
Etymology
From Old Norse f?geti, cognate with German Vogt, from Latin vocatus, from vocare (“to call”).
Noun
foud (plural fouds)
- (Britain, Shetland and Orkney) A bailiff or magistrate.
- 1983, Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis, History Workshop Series: Living the Fishing, Routledge & Kegan Paul,
- From the twelfth century Shetland had been administered directly by the Norwegian crown through the 'foud', rather than forming part of the patrimony of a great aristocratic estate. The foud appointed 'underfouds' and the Shetlands evolved their own elected officers, a 'lawman' and parish 'lawrightmen', who adjudicated and negotiated the collection of customary taxes and fines on behalf of the local population.
- 1983, Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis, History Workshop Series: Living the Fishing, Routledge & Kegan Paul,
Anagrams
- douf
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fou
English
Etymology
From Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
Adjective
fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)
- (Scotland) Drunk.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
Anagrams
- UFO, ufo
Catalan
Verb
fou
- 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)
- mad, crazy
Derived terms
Noun
fou m (plural fous, feminine folle)
- madman
- (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)
- (chess) bishop
- 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
- second-person singular imperative of fouen
Mandarin
Romanization
fou
- Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
- 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)
- (masculine) mad, crazy person
Adjective
fou (feminine fol)
- (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
- 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)
- 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)
- (Jersey) oven
Old French
Alternative forms
- fau
Etymology
From Latin fagus.
Noun
fou m (oblique plural fous, nominative singular fous, nominative plural fou)
- beech (tree)
Descendants
- French: fouet
Samoan
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baq??u, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baq??uh.
Adjective
fou
- 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)
- full
- well-fed, full of food or drink, sated, replete
- drunk, intoxicated
Adverb
fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
- fully, very, quite, rather, too
Etymology 2
Noun
fou
- saxifrage
Etymology 3
Noun
fou (plural fous)
- bushel
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