fou
adjEtymology Borrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.
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Scotland Drunk.
- Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 110:
- Related terms
- Ch'ü-fou, succès fou, yuck fou