Pronunciations
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/fuːf/
Pronunciation notes
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Noun
An audible puff of wind.
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"Hawley Smoot," he said, striking the door with his wand, and with a smoky 'foof' the door disappeared[.]
The vulva or vagina.
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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.
I am proud of my foof. A vagina is empowering.
An exasperating person.
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He's an old foof.
This press box is full of foofs.
An eccentric, foolish, or senile person, usually an old man; a coot, codger, or dotard.
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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.
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.
Interjection
Used to express exasperation or frustration
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Oh foof. You swim like a fish.
Which was idiotic, because there were Necromantic ones, Ghouls and Bonedancers and even Rancelmen. Oh well, and foof.
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'Foof! They don't care!' Rudolf said.
“Ah, foof!” Quinn sputtered.
Onomatopoeia indicating an explosive burst of air.
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"Foof!" he cried. "The world went foof."
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.
Verb
To fluff; to cause to puff up.
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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.
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.
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What, you gonna wear a glittery sequin tuxedo and foof your hair and play the piano for them?
She straightened her dress and foofed her hair as she jostled herself into position.
To blow air through the lips while they are pressed together or against skin; to blow a raspberry.
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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.
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.