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foofaraw, a. and n. N. Amer. colloq.
Brit. |ˈfuːfərɔː|, U.S. |ˈfufəˌrɑ|, |ˈfufəˌrɔ|
Forms: 18 fofarow, 18 fofarraw, 18– fofarrow, 19– fofaraw, 19– fofurraw, 19– foofara, 19– foofarah, 19– foofaral, 19– foofarar, 19– foofaraw, 19– foofarow, 19– foofarrah, 19– foofarraw, 19– foofarrow, 19– fooferaw, 19– foo-foo-rah, 19– foofooraw, 19– forfarraw, 19– forforraw, 19– froofraw, 19– froufraw, 19– frufraw, 19– fuforaw, 19– fufurraw
[‹ French fanfaron, adjective ‘boastful’ (1668; 1609 as noun in sense ‘braggart’; compare French regional fanfarou) and its etymon Spanish fanfarrón, adjective ‘ostentatious, vain, arrogant’ and noun ‘braggart, show-off’ (1555; 1514 as panfarrón), of imitative origin (compare fanfare n.). Compare earlier fanfaron n.
Forms in fr- are probably influenced by frou-frou n.]
A. adj. U.S. regional (west.). Fussy, vain; (also) gaudy, tawdry. Now hist. and rare.
1848G. F. Ruxton in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 719/1 Them white gals are too much like picturs, and a deal too ‘fofarraw’ (fanfaron). 1941L. D. Baldwin Keelboat Age 97 She had no business acting so fofarrow for she was just a yaller gal. 1947A. B. Guthrie Big Sky 265 Too fofaraw, them bourgeways..are. 1984A. L. Waldo Sacajawea (rev. ed.) lii. 1176 I've never laid on such a foofaraw bed in all my days.
B. n. orig. U.S. regional (west.).
1. Trinkets or gaudy apparel; (in later use also) frivolous trappings or accoutrements.
1848G. F. Ruxton in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 138/1 With both his better halves attired in all the glory of fofarraw, he went his way rejoicing. 1850L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah 105 You've got so much ‘fofarraw’ stuck 'bout you, this child didn't savvy at fust! 1948J. Baumann Old Man Crow's Boy 37 By then he..had formed the habit of trading furs..to Tatum at the store for fuforaw for his family, as well as supplies and traps. 1966J. H. Giles Great Adventure 98 No squaw wanted any other squaw to have more than she did, in beads and shells and paint and foofooraw. 1981P. C. Newman Canad. Establishm. (1990) II. i. 156 It has a four-car garage, a tennis court, adjoining servants' suites, floodlit gardens, and a lot more outdoor foofaral. 1995N.Y. Times 30 July xi. 1/4 The same car but without such niceties as polished wooden picnic tables in the back seat and similar foofaraw.
2. Ostentation. Also: fuss; commotion, uproar; = brouhaha n.
1933N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Mar. 7/1 A kinship born..of a common humor, and a common liking for the kind of theatrical display which Andy contemptuously calls ‘foofaraw’. 1935N.Y. Times 5 Aug. 14/5 This august assemblage of the powers of earth, with its pomp and circumstance, its foofaraw and medicine-making. 1954Time 1 Mar. 88/2 The Vatican's recent decision..set off a foofaraw of petion-drafting [read petition-drafting], letter-signing, and complaining. 1989G. Anderson in New Q. Mag. Spring 34 The food isn't what you'd think, in spite of all the foofara about Greek cooking. 2004Vanity Fair Nov. 316/1, I have no idea how the later-summer foofaraw caused by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth played out. |