fou
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
Adjective[edit]
fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)
- (Scotland) Drunk.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Verb[edit]
fou
- third-person singular preterite indicative form of ser
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French fol, from Old French fol, from Latin follis, follem. Cognate with English fool.
Adjective[edit]
fou (masculine singular before vowel fol, feminine singular folle, masculine plural fous, feminine plural folles)
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
fou m (plural fous, feminine folle)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Mauritian Creole: fol
Etymology 2[edit]
From Spanish alfil, from Arabic الفيل (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.
Noun[edit]
fou m (plural fous)
See also[edit]
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roi | dame | tour | fou | cavalier | pion |
Further reading[edit]
- “fou” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Luxembourgish[edit]
Verb[edit]
fou
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
fou
Usage notes[edit]
- 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[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fou (feminine fol)
Adjective[edit]
fou (feminine fol)
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English fāg, alternative form of fāh, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fou
Descendants[edit]
- Scots: faw
References[edit]
- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun[edit]
fou (plural fous)
- A kind of multicoloured fur.
References[edit]
- “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- four (Guernsey)
Etymology[edit]
From Old French forn, from Latin furnus.
Noun[edit]
fou m (plural fous)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fou m (oblique plural fous, nominative singular fous, nominative plural fou)
- beech (tree)
Descendants[edit]
- French: fouet
Samoan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)baqəʀu, from Proto-Austronesian *(ma-)baqəʀuh.
Adjective[edit]
fou
- new (recently made or created)
Scots[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.
Adjective[edit]
fou (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 quote)
Adverb[edit]
fou (comparative mair fou, superlative maist fou)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
fou
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
fou (plural fous)
- English terms borrowed from Scots
- English terms derived from Scots
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- Scottish English
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan verb forms
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
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- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms derived from Spanish
- French terms derived from Arabic
- fr:Chess
- fr:Birds
- fr:People
- Luxembourgish non-lemma forms
- Luxembourgish verb forms
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin pinyin
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Mauritian Creole terms with IPA pronunciation
- Mauritian Creole terms derived from French
- Mauritian Creole lemmas
- Mauritian Creole nouns
- Mauritian Creole adjectives
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English adjectives
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Hides
- Norman terms inherited from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Old French
- Norman terms inherited from Latin
- Norman terms derived from Latin
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Cooking
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- Samoan terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Samoan terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Samoan lemmas
- Samoan adjectives
- Scots terms derived from Old English
- Scots terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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- Scots terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scots lemmas
- Scots adjectives
- Scots terms with quotations
- Scots adverbs
- Scots nouns