fou
1 Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
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full
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drunk
Etymology
Origin of fou
1525–35; Scots form of full 1
Example Sentences
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The overly-ambitious-American-transformed trope, for another, accomplished via crepes, macarons and amour fou.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
She recommends making a little depression in the middle of the dough, and then putting the sauce or stew into the fou fou.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024
Suddenly, she let out a cry of joy as a large gull-like seabird - known in Bertin's Creole language as a "fou" - swooped over the deck.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2022
Where the script remains most productively faithful to the book is in its atmosphere of lush, doomy romanticism; Jacqueline is far from the only character here grappling with the exquisite cruelties of l’amour fou.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2022
"Donald my man, wait till I fa,55 And ye sall hae my brechan; Ye'll get my purse thouch fou o' gowd To tak me to Loch Lagan."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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