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, mashedyams ,plantain , or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and EquatorialAfrica and theCaribbean . Sold in speciality stores (US) in dry powdered or granulated form.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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Take a foo-foo doggie for a walk while unarmed in cougar country.
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I've seen such prints hanging in foo-foo galleries where pieces are mostly afforded by people named Muffy or Biff.
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I've seen such prints hanging in foo-foo galleries where pieces are mostly afforded by people named Muffy or Biff.
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Take a foo-foo doggie for a walk while unarmed in cougar country.
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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.
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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
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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
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I've seen such prints hanging in foo-foo galleries where pieces are mostly afforded by people named Muffy or Biff.
johnmperry commented on the word foo-foo
make-up and good clothes: "put on one's foo-foo"
June 19, 2008