foo yung en · NOUN
Etymology
From Cantonese 芙蓉 (fu4 jung4).
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fuyong | alternative | lexicographic | |
| foo-yong | alternative | lexicographic | |
| foo yong | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fooyong | alternative | lexicographic | |
| foo young | alternative | lexicographic | |
| foo-young | alternative | lexicographic | |
| 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 |