fou

From Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.

fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)

1. (Scotland) Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

• UFO, ufo

From Latin faux, faucem.

fou m (plural fous)

1. (archaic) A narrow cove.
2. A narrow passage, a ravine.

   Synonym: barranc

fou

1. third-person singular preterite indicative form of ser

• “fou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

• IPA^(key): /fu/

• audio

  (file)

• Homophones: fous, fout, foux

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

fou (masculine singular before vowel fol, feminine 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 اَلْفِيل‎ (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.

fou m (plural fous)

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

• “fou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ouf

From French fou (“mad, crazy”).

• IPA^(key): /fu/

fou m (feminine fòl)

1. mad, crazy.

• pa tou la

fou

1. second-person singular imperative of fouen

fou

1. Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
2. 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.

From French fou.

• IPA^(key): /fu/

fou (feminine fol)

1. (masculine) mad, crazy person

fou (feminine fol)

1. (masculine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagla

• fawe, fay, fogh, fow, fowe, vouh
• fah, fau, foaȝe, foȝ, foh, vaȝe (early)

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).

• 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

fou

1. Obsolete form of fă.

• fou in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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

fou

1. new (recently made or created)

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)

1. full
2. well-fed, full of food or drink, sated, replete
3. drunk, intoxicated
   • 1789, Robert Burns, Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut:

     We are na fou, we're nae that fou, / But just a drappie in our ee;

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)

1. fully, very, quite, rather, too

fou

1. saxifrage

fou (plural fous)

1. bushel

Possibly cognate to Ternate horu (“to paddle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.u/

fou

1. (intransitive) to paddle

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.u/

fou

1. betel leaf

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics