Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A negro name for dough made from plantains, the fruit being boiled and then pounded in a mortar.
  • noun A person not worth notice: a term of contempt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A dish of boiled, mashed yams, plantain, or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and Equatorial Africa and the Caribbean. Sold in speciality stores (US) in dry powdered or granulated form.

Etymologies

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From West African languages such as Ewe, fufú meaning 'white-white'

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Examples

  • I am not sure if woodsman1st was suggesting all cuts be cooked on top of the stove, but cast iron, some root vegetables and no foo-foo is the way to go.

    Paul Kahan's Recipe for Roasted Venison Backstrap 2009

  • I am not sure if woodsman1st was suggesting all cuts be cooked on top of the stove, but cast iron, some root vegetables and no foo-foo is the way to go.

    Paul Kahan's Recipe for Roasted Venison Backstrap 2009

  • Take a foo-foo doggie for a walk while unarmed in cougar country.

    What's a good way to find mountain lions? 2009

  • I've seen such prints hanging in foo-foo galleries where pieces are mostly afforded by people named Muffy or Biff.

    Art Projects for Anglers 2010

  • I've seen such prints hanging in foo-foo galleries where pieces are mostly afforded by people named Muffy or Biff.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2010

  • Take a foo-foo doggie for a walk while unarmed in cougar country.

    What's a good way to find mountain lions? 2009

  • In any case, the fact that this is going towards a modern foo-foo furniture store for rich people makes me want to throw up.

    Matthew Yglesias » Tax Increment Financing 2010

  • Which means in particular that they are not the post-scientific Cartesian dualistic foo-foo that for most today is the default concept: The Ghost in the Machine approach, by which Descartes and the scientists held that a soul was a spirit that somehow "inhabits" a material body.

    February 12th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Glenwood St., worthotel.com or the Lexington hotel for more modest prices and foo-foo downy comforters alongside somewhat sinister paintings of grizzly bears from $220 a night, 285 N.

    Jackson Hole Benjamin Percy 2011

  • I've seen such prints hanging in foo-foo galleries where pieces are mostly afforded by people named Muffy or Biff.

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2010

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  • make-up and good clothes: "put on one's foo-foo"

    June 19, 2008