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foo-foo

foo-foo is the alternative spelling of fufu.

Meaning of fufu

Noun

fufu (uncountable)

  1. A dish of boiled, mashed cassava mixed with plantain, yams, or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and Equatorial Africa and the Caribbean, and sometimes sold in dry powdered or granulated form.
    • Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa. This is topped with a sauce known as palava.[1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    choke-me

Adjective

foo-foo (comparative more foo-foo, superlative most foo-foo)

  1. Synonym of frou-frou.
    • Holland, who lives in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, certainly doesn't end with recipes for foo-foo drinks. She provides hints on making your own spirits, like applejack and elderberry wine, and instructions for building, yes, a still.2007 May 7, Robert R. Harris, “Book Review: The Joy of Drinking”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020
    • Most iPhone owners have one so they can access all the foo-foo features and elevate their self-esteem and feel oh so trendy doing so.2014 March 16, Kathleen Clary Miller, “My Turn: iPhone as OCD treatment”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22...
    Synonyms:
    frou-frou

Synonyms of foo-foo

Forms of foo-foo

comparativemore foo-foo
superlativemost foo-foo
alternative formfoo foo
alternative formfoofoo

Origin of foo-foo

Possibly a simplified form of frou-frou.

Phrases with foo-foo

Questions about foo-foo

What does foo-foo mean?
Foo-foo means synonym of frou-frou.
What is foo-foo the alternative spelling of?
Foo-foo is the alternative spelling of fufu.
What part of speech is foo-foo?
Foo-foo is an adjective.

Words near foo-foo in the dictionary

  1. foo yong
  2. foo young
  3. foo yung
  4. foo'
  5. foo's
  6. foo-foo
  7. foo-foo band
  8. foo-foo bands
  9. foo-foo juice
  10. foob
  11. foobar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foo-foo (page history and authors); fufu (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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