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fou1

[foo]
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adjective Scot.
  1. drunk.
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Origin of fou1

1525–35; Scots form of full1

fou2

[foo]
adjective French.
  1. crazy; foolish.
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Examples from the Web for fou

Historical Examples

  • Daphne was suddenly taken with a fou rire and began to laugh helplessly.

    The Limit

    Ada Leverson

  • Save for occasional lucid intervals, he was a "fou furieux."

  • In the old Lorraine language, fou for tou, all and fool, were the same thing.

  • I fancy you have a scotch proverb to the effect that 'fou folk come to no harm.'

    A Jacobite Exile

    G. A. Henty

  • The truth may as well be said, at once; he fou't like a man of red gifts, and I fou't like a man with gifts of my own colour.

    The Deerslayer

    James Fenimore Cooper

British Dictionary definitions for fou

fou

adjective Scot
  1. full
  2. drunk
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Word Origin

perhaps a Scot variant of full
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