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
Park’s most obvious touchstone is “Vertigo,” Hitchcock’s sublime 1958 l’amour fou about a detective who falls in love with a woman he thinks he’s lost only to find and lose her again.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 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
Certainly," answered the keeper; "bien fou qui s'y fie.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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