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mafoos

mafoos is the plural of mafoo.

Meaning of mafoo

Noun

mafoo (plural mafoos)

  1. In China, someone who looks after horses in a stable; a groom.
    • The mafoos held their charges miserably, as if sick with nerves.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 144

Questions about mafoos

What is mafoos the plural of?
Mafoos is the plural of mafoo.

Words near mafoos in the dictionary

  1. mafiosos
  2. mafiya
  3. mafiyas
  4. mafodotin
  5. mafoo
  6. mafoos
  7. mafoprazine
  8. mafosfamide
  9. MAFP
  10. Mafra
  11. MAFs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mafoos (page history and authors); mafoo (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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