Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive or flashy ornamentation.
- noun A fuss over a trifling matter.
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- noun Overly
excessive orflashy ornamentation ordecoration . - noun A
fuss over something of littleimportance .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A related foofaraw is that there are more important things to spend money on than the arts.
They shop around / Follow you without a sound Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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A related foofaraw is that there are more important things to spend money on than the arts.
Archive 2009-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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That’s what this whole foofaraw is really about, isn’t it?
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The foofaraw is a bit like the noise created by dimestore prophets as they made their forecasts about the new millennium.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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My beater is a Win. 67, given to me by a brother-in-law in 1952, no frills or foofaraw, or scope, just a very dependable single shot .22 that I have killed hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with, and wouldn't trade it for a boat load of tricked-out 10/22s.
Trigger Happy 2009
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There seems to be a foofaraw boiling over Superman and his recent decision in Wednesday's Action Comics #900 to renounce his American citizenship.
Bryan Young: Superman Renounces His American Citizenship Bryan Young 2011
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I've been watching all the Jackson foofaraw out of the corner of my eye with mild alarm.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Still, interesting as the nature of the island's electromagnetic vortex, the Smoke Monster's identity, the aims of the Dharma Initiative, the meaning of the Numbers and all the rest of the intellectual foofaraw are, not to mention the neo-psychedelic trippiness of the show, what keeps me watching is the fate of the characters.
William Bradley: Lost In Lost William Bradley 2010
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My beater is a Win. 67, given to me by a brother-in-law in 1952, no frills or foofaraw, or scope, just a very dependable single shot .22 that I have killed hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with, and wouldn't trade it for a boat load of tricked-out 10/22s.
Trigger Happy 2009
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Still, interesting as the nature of the island's electromagnetic vortex, the Smoke Monster's identity, the aims of the Dharma Initiative, the meaning of the Numbers and all the rest of the intellectual foofaraw are, not to mention the neo-psychedelic trippiness of the show, what keeps me watching is the fate of the characters.
Lost In Lost 2010
kaichi commented on the word foofaraw
Definition: (noun) 1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.
January 19, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word foofaraw
This has to be one of the best words ever invented. And it doesn't even matter if it has a meaning.
February 2, 2007
factoryjoe commented on the word foofaraw
Now here’s the funny thing, something that I believed back during the foofaraw over the Boston edition of Macworld Expo, and something that I still believe: Macworld Expo as an idea would be better off without Apple.
Jason Snell
December 17, 2008