Wiktionary
foo-foo
n. A dish of boiled, mashed yams, plantain, or other starchy vegetables, common as food in West and Equatorial Africa and the Caribbean. Sold in speciality stores (qualifier: US) in dry powdered or granulated form.
Wikipedia
Foo-foo
Foo-Foo may refer to:
- Fufu, a staple food in much of Africa
- Fufu (dog) (1998–2015), the former pet poodle of the Thai Crown Prince
- Foo-Foo, a fictional poodle belonging to Miss Piggy on The Muppet Show
- Foo Foo, a fictional poodle belonging to Walter the Softy in the Beano
- "Foo Foo", a song by Santana from their album Shaman
- Foo-foo band, an impromptu musical band on a ship
- "Foo Foo", a cartoon character devised for television by Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films in 1959-1960
Usage examples of "foo-foo".
Victim, Elisa Maplewood, purportedly went out, between ten and midnight, to walk the little foo-foo dog.
Not one of those grucky things with sticky fingers, always wanting to dicker for foo-foo shrubs.
The way it works, see, is the Groaci traders come in, take all the foo-foo shrubs they want, and say 'to put it on the tab.
The word from Zub-zloob is, the Krll have been harvesting foo-foo leaves, drying them, and shipping them someplace else for months, now.