"foufou" meaning in French

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Adjective

Forms: fofolle [feminine], foufous [masculine, plural], fofolles [feminine, plural]
Etymology: Reduplication of fou (“crazy”). Head templates: {{fr-adj|f=fofolle}} foufou (feminine fofolle, masculine plural foufous, feminine plural fofolles)
  1. (informal) nutty, scatty, dippy Tags: informal Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-foufou-fr-adj-s36DXWfr Disambiguation of Personality: 67 33 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 72 28
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: foufous [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} foufou m (plural foufous)
  1. fufu Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Foods
    Sense id: en-foufou-fr-noun-zdLpGiET Disambiguation of Foods: 14 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for foufou meaning in French (1.7kB)

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