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語源 1

From Mandarin 府 (fǔ).

名詞

foo (plural foos)

1. (historical, obsolete) Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions.

語源 2

From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.

Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Buddhist chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

名詞

foo (uncountable)

1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.

   Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.

2. (fandom slang) Alternative letter-case form of Foo (“placeholder god”).

派生語

• foobar

関連する語

• FUBAR

語源 3

A minced form of fuck.

間投詞

foo

1. Expression of disappointment or disgust.

   Oh foo – the cake burnt!

同意語

• (expression of disgust): darn, drat

語源 4

別の表記

• foo'

名詞

foo (plural foos)

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of fool.
   • 2020, J. Lewis Johnson, A Dark Night in the Fieldhouse:

     [page 10:] "I knew you'd be scared," Reggie laughed. "What are you doin', foo? You must be crazy. You don't scare me." "Then why did you almost fall out of that chair? I scare everyone."
     [page 38:] "This is coo," said Fred. "It's almost like being there." "We are there, foo!" said Reggie as the boys slapped palms.

参照

• rfc:3092, Etymology of "Foo", Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

参考

アナグラム

• oof

名詞

foo

1. alternative form of fo

語源 2

形容詞

foo

1. alternative form of fo

副詞

foo

1. alternative form of fo