fu

From fuck + you.

fu

1. (Internet slang) Initialism of fuck you.

• Abbreviation

fu (plural fus)

1. flux unit

From Mandarin 賦／赋 (fù).

fu (plural fu)

1. A Chinese literary form developed during the times of the Han dynasty that combines prose and poetry, sometimes called rhymed prose.

fu (uncountable)

1. (informal) kung fu
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 315:

     But the commercial timing was right—fu flicks were everywhere, and David Carradine and Bruce Lee were cult figures.

fu

1. Alternative spelling of -fu.

   UNIX fu

• “fu”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /ɸu/

fu

1. pig

• Årsjö, Britten. Words in Ama. 1999.

From English feel. Possibly influenced by Hong Kong Cantonese feel (fiu¹).

fu

1. (Taiwan, neologism) vibe; atmosphere

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu/^*, /ˈfu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: fù

fu (invariable)

1. deceased, late

   Synonym: defunto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fu

1. third-person singular past historic of essere

fu in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

fu

1. The hiragana syllable ふ (fu) or the katakana syllable フ (fu) in Hepburn romanization.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː]

fū

1. foh! fie! (expressing aversion)

Can take the dative

• foe

fu

1. clipping of fui

• “fu”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025

fu

1. nonstandard spelling of fū
2. nonstandard spelling of fú
3. nonstandard spelling of fǔ
4. nonstandard spelling of fù

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

fu

1. plural marker on some words

• mun (usual plural marker)

• Craig Alan Volker, The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (1998), page 90

• füünj (Mooring)
• fo (Sylt)

From Old Frisian fā, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną (“to seize, grasp”). The semantic development in North Frisian may have been influenced by cognate Danish få. The retention of the Germanic stem alternation may also have been reinforced by it. Other cognates include West Frisian fange, Dutch vangen, German fangen (all “to catch”).

fu

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to get, receive, obtain

From Old Norse fuð (only attested in compounds).

fu f (definite singular fua, indefinite plural fuer, definite plural fuene)

1. (anatomy, colloquial) ass

• fitte

• “fu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin focus.

fu oblique singular, m (oblique plural fus, nominative singular fus, nominative plural fu)

1. fire

• Middle French: feu
  • French: feu

fu

1. alternative form of fo

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: fu

fu

1. (colloquial, childish) yuck, ick (expression of disgust)

   Synonyms: fe, fuj, pfu, pfuj

2. (colloquial, childish) no, bad (reprimand of behavior)

   Synonyms: fe, fuj

• fu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): [fu]

fu

1. (informal) third-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi

• fuse (formal)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.mu/
• Hyphenation: sè‧mu

fu

1. third-person singular past indicative tense of èssiri; (he/she/it) was.

Of imitative origin, similar to English phooey!.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu/ [ˈfu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: fu

fu

1. an indication of disgust
2. the hissing of a cat

• “fu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

fu

1. of, belonging to
2. from
3. about
4. for

fu

1. used for marking the following verb as an infinitive to
   • ca. 1765, Pieter van Dyk, Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word [New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies]‎^[1], page 107:

     Baſſia hoe fafi maſtra gi permiſſi fo pree.

     Basya, how are you? Did master give permission to play?

2. in order to

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-fu (declinable)

1. dead

• mfu (“dead person”)
• ufu (“death”)

• -fa

• Audio:

  (file)

fu

1. from

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /vɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /viː/

fu

1. soft mutation of bu

• IPA^(key): /ɸu/

fu

1. (informal) feces

   Synonym: jarangahe (polite)

Possibly related to the above etymology.

• IPA^(key): /ɸu/

fu

1. (intransitive) to explode

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): /fū/

fu

1. to suspect, to have a second thought on a person, to be vigilant

   ará fu mí pe àṣírí ti tú ― I suspect that the secret is out

• Always occurs in construction with ara

• fura (“to suspect”)