foof

plural foofs

1. An audible puff of wind.

   "Hawley Smoot," he said, striking the door with his wand, and with a smoky 'foof' the door disappeared[.]

   1969, Beard & Kennedy, Bored of the Rings, page 85

2. UKslangThe vulva or vagina.

   I am proud of my foof. A vagina is empowering.

   2017 November 19, John Crace, The Guardian

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   ‘You may have a ring on your hand but I'm of the opinion there's no chastity belt on your foof,’ he whispered.

   2013, Karenne Griffin, New Voices in the Valley, page 299

3. slangAn exasperating person.

   He's an old foof.

   1966, Abe Burrows, Cactus Flower, page 93

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   This press box is full of foofs.

   1994, Martin O'Malley, Sean O'Malley, Game day: the Blue Jays at SkyDome, page 162

4. slangAn eccentric, foolish, or senile person, usually an old man; a coot, codger, or dotard.

   I said I didn't know but thought 1950 Los Angeles Rams might have been better. He agreed I didn't know. He said I was an old foof and I said Oh Yeah! or something snappy like that.

   1982, Bob Carroll, The Coffin Corner, volume 4, number 2

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   If you think of it as the show that switched American musical theatre permanently out of sweet music and Sig Romberg, where it belonged, you're an old foof. If you think of it as a stage dinosaur from when people worried about who sang a song best rather than whose song it was, you're a young squirt.

   1990 June 17, John Flautz, “'Oklahoma!' Rousing at Shawnee”, in The Morning Call

1. Used to express exasperation or frustration

   Oh foof. You swim like a fish.

   2011, L. Sprague deCamp, The Hand of Zei

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   Which was idiotic, because there were Necromantic ones, Ghouls and Bonedancers and even Rancelmen. Oh well, and foof.

   2013, Sheri S. Tepper, Wizard's Eleven

   'Foof! They don't care!' Rudolf said.

   2013, Simon Robinson, A Year with Rudolf Nureyev

   “Ah, foof!” Quinn sputtered.

   2013, Robyn Parnell, The Mighty Quinn, page 131

2. Onomatopoeia indicating an explosive burst of air.

   "Foof!" he cried. "The world went foof."

   1986, NDQ, North Dakota Quarterly - Volume 54, Issues 3-4, page 59

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   I was desperately searching for the emergency cord when I landed spread-eagle in the frozen creek bed. Foof! The impact caused the chute to finally deploy.

   2005, Dan Rodgers, I Thought You Brought the Can Opener

present singular third person foofs · participle present foofing · participle past foofed · past foofed

1. To fluff; to cause to puff up.

   She straightened her dress and foofed her hair as she jostled herself into position.

   2011, Cate Kendall, Armani Angels, page 12

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   I foofed my hair and buzzed the door open, swiping cat hairs from my chest so that I wouldn't leave a tacky hug imprint.

   1995, Dorian Yeager, Eviction by Death, page 123

   I'm home from school with barely enough time to foof my hair, brush my teeth, and dab on a little extra mascara before the front doorbell rings.

   2011, Marley Gibson, The Discovery, page 20

   What, you gonna wear a glittery sequin tuxedo and foof your hair and play the piano for them?

   2011, Randy Powel, The Whistling Toilets

2. To blow air through the lips while they are pressed together or against skin; to blow a raspberry.

   Then those people who foofed and humphed start calling meetings about why there's not this kind of thinking coming out of Foof & Humph Industries.

   1986, George Mazzei, Moving Up, page 54

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   "Foof me, Dad." She pulled up her sweatshirt. "No." "Foof me. Please." "I'll foof you," Mad said. "No, I want my Dad to foof me. Foof me, Dad." She puffed out her stomach and looked at it.

   1973, A. Wilber Stevens, Stories Southwest, page 36

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