foo-foo

• Holland, who lives in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, certainly doesn't end with recipes for foo-foo drinks. She provides hints on making your own spirits, like applejack and elderberry wine, and instructions for...
• Most iPhone owners have one so they can access all the foo-foo features and elevate their self-esteem and feel oh so trendy doing so. - 2014 March 16, Kathleen Clary Miller, “My Turn: iPhone as OCD treatment”, in Los...
• Change your wardrobe so it is all earth shades: salmon, tans, umber, ocher, sienna, chestnut, khaki, russet, taupe, ecru, biscuit, camel, etc. This is not because you love these foo-foo colors. It is because you have...

Synonyms: frou-frou

• Ezinma and her mother sat on a mat on the floor after their supper of yam foo-foo and bitter-leaf soup. - 1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, →OCLC:
• 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 - 1991, Elechi Amadi, The concubine, page 45:
• 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...