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-fu

UK/fuː/

-fu suffix: used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge.

Suffix

-fu

  1. (slang) Used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge.
    • Google + -fu → Google-fu
    • script + -fu → script-fu

Examples of -fu in a sentence

  • My Google-fu is weak!
  • Aragorn uses Ranger-fu to figure out that Sam and Frodo have taken a boat.

Origin of -fu

Back-formation from kung fu.

Words formed from -fu

Words that rhyme with -fu

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Questions about -fu

What does -fu mean?
-fu means used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge.
How do you use -fu in a sentence?
My Google-fu is weak!
What part of speech is -fu?
-fu is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -fu?
-fu is pronounced /fuː/ (UK).

Words near -fu in the dictionary

  1. -free
  2. -fren
  3. -friend
  4. -frine
  5. -frog
  6. -fu
  7. -fu-
  8. -fuckin'-
  9. -fuckin-
  10. -fucking-
  11. -fugal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -fu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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