foo-foo adj.
1. simple-minded, stupid, oafish.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 4 Jan. n.p.: Out run the cars, and soon was home / With Snore’s foo-foo daughter. | |
| N.Y. Clipper 14 May 2/4: Them’s my sentiments on this here foo-foo concern. | |
| The Hop of Fashion in Darkey Drama 4 Act II: mose. Come Lize; let’s have a dance, and leave this foo-foo ball. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | One Jamaica Gal 22: Lawd, but the ‘missis’ is one sweet lady [...] an’ Mister Hilary am sweet too but him too foo-foo. | |
| ‘C’ristmus Ham’ in Jam. Dialect Poems 49: Wat a big an so-so foo-fool gal. | |
| Cactus Village 47: I put out starch water to settle, the fool-fool goat drink it. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | God the Stonebreaker 34: She liked Parson Allen although he acted so ‘fool-fool’ at times. | |
| (con. 1940s) ‘De Royal Commotion’ in Jamaica Labrish 145: Hear Sally wid her fool-fool self. | |
| Smile Orange I i: A woman asking me a whole heap a question, whole heap a fool-fool question. | |
| Auntie Roachy Sey (2003) 23: Hear de foo-foo gal. | |
| Countryman Karl Black 122: Freda, don’t ask the young man any fool-fool question. | |
| Catch a Fire 57: Under a mantle of disgrace [...] for being so idiotic as to legally wed a ‘foo-foo’ (foolish) country waif. | |
| Dread Culture 35: No wonder yuh ask a fool-fool question like dat. | |
| Catch a Fire 57: Gone-a Kingston in shame, under a mantle of disgrace from his own family for being so idiotic as to legally wed a ‘foo-foo’ (foolish) country waif. | |
| (con. 1981) East of Acre Lane 232: ‘She still fool-fool though,’ Carol insisted. |
2. credulous, gullible.
| Anancy Stories and Dialect Verse 30: Hear Tiga wid him foo-foo self, ‘A’right Bra Nancy, as long as yuh come wid me’. | |
| Quality of Violence (1978) 72: And you too fool-fool. | |
| (con. 1940s) ‘Sir’ in Jamaica Labrish 148: An de bans o’ long an foo-fool / Letta to de edita. |