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fugu

Syllables: Fu·gu/ˈfuː.ɡuː/

fugu noun: blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.

Noun

fugu (uncountable)

  1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
    • Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • A sluggish swimmer, fugu has stunted fins and often flat-lying spikes instead of scales, and when confronted by predators it compensates for its lack of speed by swallowing enough water to swell up until its spikes stand on end, so it looks like an angry armored balloon.2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021

Proper noun capitalized: Fugu

Fugu

  1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
    • Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi^([sic – meaning Shaanxi]) Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256–257
    • The explosion occurred in the afternoon in Xinmin, a town in Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, and by early Tuesday rescuers had counted 147 wounded, 113 of whom had been hospitalized, according to Xinhua, the main state news agency.2016 October 24, Chris Buckley, “Explosion Batters Neighborhood in China, Killing 14 and Wounding Nearly 150”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

fugu meaning in Tamil

fugu in Tamil

பூகுநச்சுமூன்

Forms of fugu

alternative formFu-ku
alternative formFuku

Origin of fugu

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 府谷 (Fǔgǔ).

Phrases with fugu

Questions about fugu

What does fugu mean?
Fugu means blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
What is fugu in Tamil?
Fugu in Tamil is பூகுநச்சுமூன். See Fugu meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fugu?
Fugu can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fugu?
Fugu is pronounced /ˈfuː.ɡuː/.

Words near fugu in the dictionary

  1. fugma
  2. fugoid
  3. fugoids
  4. Fugou
  5. fugs
  6. fugu
  7. Fugu Plan
  8. fugue
  9. fugue state
  10. fugue states
  11. fugued

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fugu (page history and authors); Fugu (page history and authors); fugu (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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