enuf

American  

[ih-nuhf] / ɪˈnʌf /

adjective

Eye Dialect.

1. enough.

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Etymology

Origin of enuf

First recorded in 1680–85

Example Sentences

One was that she did a production of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” which reawakened the pull theater had on her spirit.

From Salon

The show, written and directed by Ryan Calais Cameron, is a male-centric spin on Ntozake Shange’s 1976 work, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” in which women of color recount their experiences of racism and gendered violence through performance poetry, music and dance.

From New York Times

A handful of Black writers appear from 1977-2000, starting with Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf,” before the list broadly diversifies in the 21st century.

From Seattle Times

By then, he was an editor at Macmillan, where he published a book version of Ntozake Shange’s feminist play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” which had its premiere in 1976.

From New York Times

It was even worse after the American playwright Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” made it to Broadway in 1976, when Kennedy’s own work was hardly being produced.

From New York Times