See foo-foo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Peut-être du lingala fufú (« pâte de manioc écrasé »)."
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"text": "Foo-foo is made from plantains pounded in a mortar with a pestle.",
"translation": "le foo foo est fabriqué à partir de bananes plantains pilées dans un mortier avec un pilon."
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"text": "The world was silent except for the shrill cry of insects, which was part of the night, and the sound of wooden mortar and pestle as Nwayieke pounded her foo-foo.",
"translation": "Le monde était silencieux, à part le cri strident des insectes, qui faisait partie intégrante de la nuit, et le bruit du mortier et du pilon en bois de Nwayieke pilant son foufou."
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"text": "It is later in the evening when the height of the foo-foo is reduced that guests can exchange greetings across the left-over.",
"translation": "traduction : C’est plus tard dans la soirée, lorsque la quantité de \"foufou\" diminue, que les invités peuvent échanger des salutations par-dessus les restes."
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"ref": "Amanda Temple, in Working Woman n°6-11, 2000.",
"text": "… : foo-foo young women who will pay $ 400 for a bag just big enough for a cell phone , M.A.C. lipstick , and Altoids.",
"translation": "Ces jeunes femmes hyper coquettes qui déboursent 400 dollars pour un sac juste assez grand pour un téléphone portable, un rouge à lèvres M.A.C. et des pastilles de réglisse."
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"text": "I prefer my fistees to be somehow innocent-looking or ordinary-like the \"Breakfast at Tiffany's\" banker. Nothing too obviously sex-piggy. I guess it has something to do with violation .And not one of those little foo-foo girlie ones that needed regular grooming , wore cute little outfits ', and had their toenails painted, but …",
"translation": "traduction : Je préfère que mes partenaires fistés aient l'air innocents, ordinaires, comme le banquier de « Breakfast at Tiffany's ». Rien de trop ostensiblement cochon. Je suppose que ça a un rapport avec la transgression. Et pas une de ces petites tafiolles efféminés et fragiles qui ont besoin d'être toilettés régulièrement, qui portent de jolies petites tenues et qui ont les ongles de pieds vernis, mais"
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"Homme homosexuel très efféminé."
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"text": "Adults in other families name vulvas \"foo foo\" or a \"front bum\" while calling one's penis a \"willy\".",
"translation": "traduction : Dans d'autres familles, les adultes appellent la vulve « fou fou » ou « fesses avant » et le pénis « willy »."
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"text": "… : foo-foo young women who will pay $ 400 for a bag just big enough for a cell phone , M.A.C. lipstick , and Altoids.",
"translation": "Ces jeunes femmes hyper coquettes qui déboursent 400 dollars pour un sac juste assez grand pour un téléphone portable, un rouge à lèvres M.A.C. et des pastilles de réglisse."
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"translation": "traduction : Je préfère que mes partenaires fistés aient l'air innocents, ordinaires, comme le banquier de « Breakfast at Tiffany's ». Rien de trop ostensiblement cochon. Je suppose que ça a un rapport avec la transgression. Et pas une de ces petites tafiolles efféminés et fragiles qui ont besoin d'être toilettés régulièrement, qui portent de jolies petites tenues et qui ont les ongles de pieds vernis, mais"
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"translation": "traduction : Dans d'autres familles, les adultes appellent la vulve « fou fou » ou « fesses avant » et le pénis « willy »."
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