fou — meaning in English
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English meaning
- balmy adj Of weather, pleasantly warm and mild.
- batty adj Crazy, eccentric, or slightly mad.
- bishop noun A senior clergy member who oversees churches and priests within a district (a diocese).
- bonkers adj Crazy, wild, or absurd.
- booby noun A foolish or dim-witted person.
- crackpot noun Someone seen as eccentric or foolish, especially for holding strange or unfounded beliefs.
- crazy adj Mentally unstable or irrational; behaving in a wild or nonsensical way.
- fiend noun An evil or demonic being; by extension, a cruel or wicked person.
- fool noun A person who acts or thinks without good sense or judgment.
- freak noun A person, animal, or thing that is highly unusual or abnormal.
- gannet noun Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.
- insane adj Suffering from serious mental illness; not of sound mind.
- loon noun A diving water bird known for its haunting, wailing call, found in North America and northern Europe.
- mad adj Angry or annoyed.
- madman noun A man who behaves in an insane, irrational, or extremely reckless way.
- nut noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
- nutty adj Tasting or smelling of nuts.
- silly adjective Foolish or lacking good sense; done or said in a way that invites laughter.
Senses
fou is used for these senses in English:
- balmy (informal, US) Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
- batty (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
- bishop (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- bonkers (informal, especially, Britain) Mad; crazy.
- booby Any of various large tropical seabirds from the genera Sula and Papasula in the gannet family Sulidae, traditionally considered to be stupid.
- court jester A person in colorful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
- crackpot (informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
- crazy Of unsound mind; insane; demented. [from 17th c.]
balmy — full definition
- adj Of weather, pleasantly warm and mild.
- adj Slightly crazy or foolish (British slang).