"foo" meaning in All languages combined

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Interjection [English]

IPA: /fuː/ [UK] Audio: En-au-foo.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: A minced form of fuck. Etymology templates: {{m|en|fuck}} fuck Head templates: {{en-interj}} foo
  1. Expression of disappointment or disgust. Categories (topical): English minced oaths Synonyms (expression of disgust): darn, drat
    Sense id: en-foo-en-intj-5yF9ZgO1 Disambiguation of English minced oaths: 28 10 26 5 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun [English]

IPA: /fuː/ [UK] Audio: En-au-foo.ogg [Australia] Forms: foos [plural]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: From Mandarin 府 (fǔ). Etymology templates: {{der|en|cmn|府|tr=fǔ}} Mandarin 府 (fǔ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} foo (plural foos)
  1. (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions. Tags: alt-of, alternative, historical, obsolete Alternative form of: fu (extra: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions)
    Sense id: en-foo-en-noun-wBMDirUu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /fuː/ [UK] Audio: En-au-foo.ogg [Australia]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s. Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Etymology templates: {{der|en|zh|福||fortunate; prosperity, good luck|tr=fú}} Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), {{m|zh|福星||Jupiter|tr=Fúxīng}} 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”), {{m|en|om mani padme hum}} om mani padme hum, {{m|en|FUBAR}} FUBAR Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} foo (uncountable)
  1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Programming, English minced oaths
    Sense id: en-foo-en-noun-2Plrjxs4 Disambiguation of English minced oaths: 28 10 26 5 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 12 41 8 32 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 7 8 57 5 22 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  2. (fandom slang) Alternative letter-case form of Foo (“placeholder god”) Tags: alt-of, slang, uncountable Alternative form of: Foo (extra: placeholder god)
    Sense id: en-foo-en-noun-ptLe1gJB Topics: lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: foobar Related terms: FUBAR
Etymology number: 2

Noun [English]

IPA: /fuː/ [UK] Audio: En-au-foo.ogg [Australia] Forms: foos [plural]
Rhymes: -uː Head templates: {{en-noun}} foo (plural foos)
  1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of fool. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang Alternative form of: fool Categories (topical): English minced oaths Synonyms: foo' Related terms: foo dog, foo fighter, foo-foo, foo-foo band, foo-foo juice, foo lion, foo young, foo yung
    Sense id: en-foo-en-noun-vgC02zHg Disambiguation of English minced oaths: 28 10 26 5 32 Categories (other): English pronunciation spellings
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Adjective [Middle English]

Etymology: From Old English fā, variant of fāh. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|fā}} Old English fā, {{m|ang|fāh}} fāh Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} foo, {{enm-adj}} foo
  1. Alternative form of fo Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: fo
    Sense id: en-foo-enm-adj-9hCW0-wt Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 36 33 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Adverb [Middle English]

Etymology: From Old English fā, variant of fāh. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|fā}} Old English fā, {{m|ang|fāh}} fāh Head templates: {{head|enm|adverb||||{{{2}}}|head=}} foo, {{enm-adv}} foo
  1. Alternative form of fo Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: fo
    Sense id: en-foo-enm-adv-9hCW0-wt Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 36 33 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Middle English]

Forms: foos [plural]
Etymology: From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|ġefāh}} Old English ġefāh Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} foo, {{enm-noun}} foo (plural foos)
  1. Alternative form of fo Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: fo
    Sense id: en-foo-enm-noun-9hCW0-wt Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 36 33 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Adverb [Murui Huitoto]

IPA: [ˈɸɔː]
Head templates: {{head|huu|adverb}} foo
  1. in, inside Synonyms: fo
    Sense id: en-foo-huu-adv-ci9R0hgR Categories (other): Murui Huitoto entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Tetum]

Head templates: {{head|tet|verb}} foo
  1. to stink
    Sense id: en-foo-tet-verb-HPc6Kdz- Categories (other): Tetum entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  ],
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    "foo"
  ],
  "lang": "Murui Huitoto",
  "lang_code": "huu",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Murui Huitoto adverbs",
        "Murui Huitoto entries with incorrect language header",
        "Murui Huitoto lemmas",
        "Murui Huitoto terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "in, inside"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "in",
          "in"
        ],
        [
          "inside",
          "inside"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɸɔː]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foo"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tet",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "foo",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tetum",
  "lang_code": "tet",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Tetum entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tetum lemmas",
        "Tetum verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to stink"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stink",
          "stink"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foo"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.