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
What starts out as a typical detective drama, soon becomes an involving tale of amour fou as a police investigation shifts from the professional to the personal.
From Salon • Oct. 14, 2022
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
He, too, had disliked the raging and apparently futile volubility of the young tribune during the Franco-Prussian War, but Thiers got over calling Gambetta a "fou furieux."
From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)
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