fouとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.

形容詞

fou (comparative more fou, superlative most fou)

1. (Scotland) Drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 110:

     Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.

参考

アナグラム

• UFO, ufo

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 fāh, from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

Forms without final /x/ are a result of levelling from 古期英語 inflected forms (e.g., masculine weak nominative singular fāga).

発音

• IPA: /fɔu̯/, /fɔu̯x/
• 韻: -ɔu̯

形容詞

fou

1. multicoloured / multicolored, stippled

派生した語

• Scots: faw

参照

• “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

名詞

fou (plural fous)

1. A kind of multicoloured fur.

参照

• “fou, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.