fufun.

1740 C. Leslie New Hist. Jamaica ii. 33 And boil it with beaten Maiz or Indian Corn, (which they call Fu Fu).

1826 A. Barclay Pract. View Slavery W. Indies 437 A negro..would greatly prefer his own good substantial dish of foofoo, composed of eddoes, ochras, and mashed plantains.

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 977/2 This mass [of plantain boiled whole], beaten in a mortar, constitutes the foo-foo of the negroes [of British Guiana].

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Foo-foo, a negro name for dough made from plantains; the fruit being boiled and then pounded in a mortar.

1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. II. 144 ‘Fufu’ is composed of yam, plaintain, or casava; it is peeled, boiled, pounded and made into balls.

1888 Daily News 17 July 5/3 Plantains..form the staple of food with the natives, who beat them up into fufu.

1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 54 There were fou-fou soup, pepper-pot, barbecued meat, and piles of oranges.

1924 Glasgow Herald 8 Nov. 5 The women pounded their ‘fou-fou’ in the courtyard of the [Ashanti] village.

1930 Discovery Mar. 99/1 The various vegetables used for making the soups or sauces which flavour their fu-fu, a kind of porridge.

1959 Guardian 24 Oct. 4/5 Quantities of jollof rice and fufu were placed round about.

1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds xiv. 141 The Shepherd's Bush market has a shop devoted wholly to West African foods..like..garden eggs and fou-fou, edwene and dried snails.