fou
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
Adjective
editfou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)
- (Scotland) Drunk.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 110:
- Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.
See also
editAnagrams
editCatalan
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Latin fōcem, early monophthongized variant of faucem.
Noun
editfou m (plural fous)
Etymology 2
editVerb
editfou
- third-person singular preterite indicative of ser
- third-person singular preterite indicative of ésser
References
edit- “fou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Middle French fol, from Old French fol, from Latin follem. Cognate with English fool.
Adjective
editfou (masculine singular before vowel fol, feminine folle, masculine plural fous, feminine plural folles)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Louisiana Creole: fou
Noun
editfou m (plural fous, feminine folle)
- madman
- jester (court entertainer)
- (colloquial) nut (extreme enthusiast)
- Synonym: malade
- C’est un fou de voile. ― He's a sailing nut.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Mauritian Creole: fol
Etymology 2
editDerived from Spanish alfil, from Arabic اَلْفِيل (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.
Noun
editfou m (plural fous)
See also
editChess pieces in French · pièces d’échecs (layout · text) | |||||
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roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
Further reading
edit- “fou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editLouisiana Creole
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from French fou (“mad, crazy”).
Adjective
editfou m (feminine fòl)
Etymology 2
editInherited from French four (“oven, stove”).
Noun
editfou
- (an) oven
Luxembourgish
editVerb
editfou
Mandarin
editRomanization
editfou
- Nonstandard spelling of fóu.
- Nonstandard spelling of fǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of fòu.
Usage notes
edit- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Mauritian Creole
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfou (feminine fol)
Adjective
editfou (feminine fol)
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited 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).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editfou
Descendants
edit- Scots: faw
References
edit- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
Noun
editfou (plural fous)
- A kind of multicoloured fur.
References
edit- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
Norman
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French forn, from Latin furnus.
Noun
editfou m (plural fous)
Old French
editAlternative forms
edit- , fau
Etymology
editNoun
editfou oblique singular, m (oblique plural fous, nominative singular fous, nominative plural fou)
- beech (tree)
Descendants
edit- ⇒ French: fouet
Old Irish
editPronoun
editfou
- Alternative spelling of fóu
Romanian
editInterjection
editfou
References
editSamoan
editEtymology
editDerived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.
Adjective
editfou
- new (recently made or created)
Scots
editEtymology 1
editDerived from Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.
Adjective
editfou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
- full
- well-fed, full of food or drink, sated, replete
- 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 quotation)
Adverb
editfou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editfou
Etymology 3
editNoun
editfou (plural fous)
Tsou
editNoun
editfou
West Makian
editEtymology 1
editPossibly cognate to Ternate horu (“to paddle”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editfou
- (intransitive) to paddle
Conjugation
editConjugation of fou (action verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tofou | mofou | afou | |
2nd person | nofou | fofou | ||
3rd person | inanimate | ifou | dofou | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nofou, fou | fofou, fou |
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfou
References
edit- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[1], Pacific linguistics
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