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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

-fu en · X

Pronunciation

  • /fuː/ (UK)

Etymology

Back-formation from kung fu.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme, slang) Used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge.
    • Google + -fu → Google-fu
    • Aragorn uses Ranger-fu to figure out that Sam and Frodo have taken a boat.
    • script + -fu → script-fu
    • My Google-fu is weak!

Deriveds

Google-fu

Relateds

fu