fugu

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.ɡuː/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

fugu (uncountable)

1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
   • 2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.

   • 2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎^[2], archived from the original on 1 January 2021:

     A sluggish swimmer, fugu has stunted fins and often flat-lying spikes instead of scales, and when confronted by predators it compensates for its lack of speed by swallowing enough water to swell up until its spikes stand on end, so it looks like an angry armored balloon.

fugu first-singular present indicative

1. alternative form of fug

From Portuguese fogo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fogu.

fugu

1. fire

Borrowed from Dutch fugue, from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), fugiō (“to flee”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfuɡu/ [ˈfu.ɡu]
• Rhymes: -uɡu
• Syllabification: fu‧gu

fugu (plural fugu-fugu)

1. (neurology, psychiatry, psychology) fugue, fugue state: A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality

• “fugu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

fugu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぐ
2. Rōmaji transcription of フグ

Unadapted borrowing from English fugu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ɡu/
• Rhymes: -uɡu
• Syllabification: fu‧gu

fugu f (indeclinable)

2. spot-fin porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix)

   Synonyms: diodon, diodon jeżyk, jeżoryb, jeżówka, najeżka, rozdymka, rybojeż

4. fugu (delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins)

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

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: fu‧gu

fugu m (plural fugus)

1. fugu (blowfish, as a Japanese delicacy)

• baiacu

• IPA^(key): [ˈfu.ɡu]

fugu

1. (stative) to be hunched

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fugú

1. island