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- fa
- face
- face
- face-basin, face-bowl, face-pan
- fainty
- fair, fear
- fair-skin
- fairly well
- fall
- fall
- fall away
- fall ill and shameful
- fall out
- falling crop
- false
- false boxwood
- false hog gum
- false pear
- fambly, family
- Family Islands
- family wood
- fan
- fan rake
- fanner grass
- fanner, fenno
- far as
- farm
- farrer
- farrer
- fast
- fast
- fat pine
- fat pork
- father
- Father!
- father-giver
- father-in-law
- fathom
- favour
- fe
- feared
- feather
- featherbed
- Feberary
- feed
- feeding tree
- feeg
- feel
- feen bush
- fence
- fenno
- fer
- ferruffle
- fertilize
- festation
- fester
- Festivals
- fetch
- fetch in, fetch up
- fever
- fever bush
- fever grass
- field bed
- fig tobacco
- fig tree, feeg tree
- fight somebody to do something
- fight yourself up (doing something)
- fighter
- file
- fillim
- fillimadick
- fillimingo
- fillimingo wait-man
- filthiness
- filthy days
- fin
- fin
- find yourself
- fine
- fine-fine
- finger
- finger banana
- finger pepper
- fingle
- finish
- fire
- fire engine
- fire hearth
- fire log
- fire place
- Fire-Bug
- fire-bun, fire-bum
- fire-chip
- fire-dance
- fire-fire
- fire-food
- fire-kitchen
- first
- first face cousin
- first name
- first picker
- first-time
- fish
- fish gill
- fish knife
- fish pot
- fish tea
- fish-pot edging
- fish-scale fern
- fishin
- fishin' ranch
- Fishing
- fishing bag
- fishining, fishning
- fishy
- fit
- fit out
- fit up
- five rock, six rock
- five!
- five-finger
- five-pound word
- fix
- fix
- flame fish
- flamingo bill
- flamper, flamber
- flat
- flat-row
- flattening
- flavouring meat
- fleet
- fleshman 'eas, the fleshman
- flick
- flick
- fling
- flitters
- float
- flog
- floor bed
- flour biscuit
- flour cake
- flour pap
- flour tea
- flour-bag (panty, robin)
- flower plants
- flowering aloe
- flowers
- flum-flum
- flusteration
- flux stomach
- fly pen
- fly-by-night
- fly-house
- flying ants
- flying tiger
- fo
- Folklore
- follow
- fonk
- foo-foo, fou-fou, fufu
- food store
- food wagon
- fool
- fool-fool
- fooly
- foot
- foot bottom
- foot grass
- foot-to-foot
- foot-track
- foots
- for
- for, fa, fe, fer, fo
- forbidden fruit
- force
- fore-day
- foreparents
- forget: not forget somebody
- fork
- fortify
- Fortune Island
- fortune teller
- forty-fin
- foster wife
- four-man-strength
- fowl
- fowl berry
- fowl egg
- fowl foot
- fowl snake
- fowl-crow
- fowl-foot soapberry
- fowled of doing something
- fowler
- Fox Hill Day
- fox-tail grass
- free bowels
- freeness
- Freetown
- French bull-hook
- French knife
- French trumpet flower
- fresh
- fresh cold
- freshness: do freshness
- frettining
- fringe
- fringe reef
- fringe suit
- frogwood
- from
- from side to side
- from time
- front
- front street, front road
- frowzy
- Fruit
- fufu
- fugger
- full
- full (up)
- full water
- full-crop
- fun
- funk
- funk out
- funky
- furnitures
- furrer
- furrer
- fuss
- fyak
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Definitions starting with F
foo-foo, fou-fou, fufu
/fufú/ [Atlantic (Hancock 1969:50) and Car. Sp. (Alvarez Nazario 1974: 272); "cf. Twi e-fúfu a white thing; fufúú the common food, consisting of yam, plantains, cassada. . .cut into pieces and boiled. ..pounded to a tough, doughy mass; cf. similar forms in Ewe, Fon, Wolof, Mende, Hausa (Turner 1949:193); cf. Yoruba fùùfú mashed cassava (Oyedeji p.c.) and Kongo mffuúmfu flour (esp. of cassava) (Carter p.c.)]
n. 1. starchy vegetables, boiled and mashed (old term): 1976 Most of the young people of Bain Town didn't like foo foo, but the older folk were nearer to their Yoruba heritage, and ate it often (Eneas 33). (Black)
2, a dish, see quot.: 1934 "Fou-fou" which contains "okra". . .dried conch meat, dried fish and ontons or shallots. It is a brew, a broth and a stew all in one (Bell 82). cf. FLUM-FLUM
Tags: food, noun, reduplication, vegetable
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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