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fou 1[foo] ExamplesWord Origin adjective Scot.
Origin of fou 1 1525–35; Scots form of full1 fou 2[foo] adjective French.
- crazy; foolish.
Examples from the Web for fou Historical Examples of fou
Daphne was suddenly taken with a fou rire and began to laugh helplessly.
Ada Leverson
Save for occasional lucid intervals, he was a “fou furieux.”
Percy Allen
In the old Lorraine language, fou for tou, all and fool, were the same thing.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.
Francois Rabelais
I fancy you have a scotch proverb to the effect that ‘fou folk come to no harm.’
G. A. Henty
The truth may as well be said, at once; he fou’t like a man of red gifts, and I fou’t like a man with gifts of my own colour.
James Fenimore Cooper
British Dictionary definitions for fou fou adjective Scot
- full
- drunk
Word Origin for fou perhaps a Scot variant of full