intj
Meaning 1
Expression of disappointment or disgust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Oh foo – the cake burnt!
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Standard Lemma guide
foo
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /fuː/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -uː
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homophone: -fu
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CMU ARPABET: F UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Meaning 2
A mock deity of early science fiction fandom; a fannish ghod.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, humorous, slang
Topics: lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, historical, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
Examples
- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
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noun
Meaning 5
Alternative letter-case form of Foo (“placeholder god”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, slang, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 6
Pronunciation spelling of fool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang
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History
Etymology
A minced form of fuck.
See foo. Used in this context by Jack Speer, originally for the fannish ghod of mimeography in the 1930s.
From Mandarin 府 (fǔ).
From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s. Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Buddhist chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.