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hufu

/ˈhuːfuː/

hufu noun: tofu whose flavor has been designed to resemble that of human flesh.

Noun

hufu (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Tofu whose flavor has been designed to resemble that of human flesh.
    • He wants to eventually offer varieties of hufu, but he's starting with just one: Hufu Classic Strips. These “will basically resemble the choicer flesh, which is upper arms, thighs and buttocks.”2006, Alex Boese, “Food”, in Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S., illustrated edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 77
    • a human-flavored tofu called Hufu. The bean curd's flavor was based on what cannibals described humans as tasting like. The Hufu motto: It's the healthy human-flesh alternative.2010 March 1, Bart King, chapter XXI, in The Big Book of Gross Stuff, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 258

Examples of hufu in a sentence

  • Hufu is sort of like tofu (bean curd) except it is designed to look and taste like, uh, human.2014 August 21, Bart King, The Big Book of Girl Stuff, revised edition, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:
  • I think someone took hufu.) It was us zombies against the fleshies.2017 January 25, Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter, Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era...
  • HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . .2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic...

Origin of hufu

Blend of human + tofu.

Questions about hufu

What does hufu mean?
Hufu means tofu whose flavor has been designed to resemble that of human flesh.
How do you use hufu in a sentence?
Hufu is sort of like tofu (bean curd) except it is designed to look and taste like, uh, human.
What part of speech is hufu?
Hufu is a noun.
How do you pronounce hufu?
Hufu is pronounced /ˈhuːfuː/.

Words near hufu in the dictionary

  1. Hufnagle
  2. Hufnagles
  3. Hufstetler
  4. Hufstetlers
  5. Hufton
  6. hufu
  7. Hufuf
  8. hug
  9. hug box
  10. hug boxes
  11. hug button

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