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foo yung en · NOUN

Etymology

From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A Chinese omelette dish usually made with meat and vegetables.
    • To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the omeletty foo yung, never seemed quite right. 2011, Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 455:

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fuyong alternative lexicographic
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fooyong alternative lexicographic
foo young alternative lexicographic
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fuyoung alternative lexicographic
foo-yung alternative lexicographic
fu-yung alternative lexicographic
fu-young alternative lexicographic
fu-yong alternative lexicographic
fooyoung alternative lexicographic
fu yung alternative lexicographic
fu young alternative lexicographic
fuyung alternative lexicographic
fu yong alternative lexicographic
fooyung alternative lexicographic

Relateds

egg foo young