foo-foo
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative spelling of fufu
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:
- Ezinma and her mother sat on a mat on the floor after their supper of yam foo-foo and bitter-leaf soup.
- 1991, Elechi Amadi, The concubine, page 45:
- There was so much fish and meat in the soup that they had to put them on a separate plate, to facilitate the free movement of their balls of foo-foo in the soup
- 2007, Elphinstone Dayrell, Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, page 35:
- The king, however, refused to do this; but as he was rather sorry for the tortoise, he said he would present him with a magic foo-foo tree, which would the tortoise and his family with food, […] Every day it dropped foo-foo and soup on the ground.