fufu

From West African languages such as Ewe, fufú (“white-white”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuˌfu/

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fufu (uncountable)

1. A dish of boiled, mashed cassava mixed with plantain, yams, or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and Equatorial Africa and the Caribbean, and sometimes sold in dry powdered or granulated form.
   • [1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Africans generally serve highly seasoned stews with a starch - corn, millet, yams, cassava or rice - which they mash and whip to a paste, called fufu in West Africa. This is topped with a sauce known as palava.]

   • 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 192:

     “I want some real food,” Binta angrily said. “Like fufu and egusi soup.”

• foofoo, foo-foo, foufou

• (dish of yams etc): choke-me (Caribbean)

• Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Robert Brock Le Page (editors), Dictionary of Jamaican English, Second Edition, University of the West Indies Press (2002), page 185.

Borrowed from Japanese ふふ (fufu, onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter; compare English haha).

fufu

1. (fandom slang, chiefly in translations of Japanese works) Alternative form of fufufu (onomatopoeia for laughter; especially a snicker).

fufu

1. lungs

• Schuh, Russel G.; Shalanguwa, Elisha. Bura-English-Hausa Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /fù.fù/, [f͈ù.f͈ù]

fùfù

1. fufu (a dish of boiled, mashed cassava mixed with plantain, yams, or other starchy vegetables)

• Jim-Fugar, Dr. M.K.N., Jim-Fugar, Nicholine (2017) “fufu”, in Nuseline's Ewe-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Togo: Independently published, →ISBN, page 85

From any of various African languages that share this word.

• IPA^(key): /fù.fú/

fùfú

1. fufu (a dish of boiled, mashed cassava mixed with plantain, yams, or other starchy vegetables)

• Fyle, Clifford N., Jones, Eldred D. (1980) A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 116

From North Moluccan Malay fufu, from Ternate fufu (“to roast; to smoke”).

fufu

1. to smoke

fufu

1. smoked

   cakalang fufu ― smoked skipjack tuna

• bafufu

• Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sulawesi Utara (2021) Kamus Dwibahasa Melayu Manado-Indonesia (in Indonesian), Manado: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sulawesi Utara