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foof

UK /fuːf/noun, interjection, verb

foof is a noun meaning “An audible puff of wind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-O-F, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of foof is foofs.

What does foof mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An audible puff of wind.

  2. 2

    UKslangThe vulva or vagina.

  3. 3

    slangAn exasperating person.

  4. 4

    slangAn eccentric, foolish, or senile person, usually an old man; a coot, codger, or dotard.

interjection

  1. 1

    Used to express exasperation or frustration

  2. 2

    Onomatopoeia indicating an explosive burst of air.

verb

  1. 1

    To fluff; to cause to puff up.

  2. 2

    To blow air through the lips while they are pressed together or against skin; to blow a raspberry.

noun

as FOOF
  1. 1

    informaldioxygen difluoride

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce foof?

  • UK /fuːf/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-foof.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of foof

  • foofs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • foofing participle, present
  • foofed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is foof?

Foof appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Foof in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanMuschi, Vagina (vulva or vagina), pfeifen (to blow air through the lips)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does foof come from?

Onomatopoeic (see foof), in reference to its explosive properties, and as a play on its chemical structure (F = fluorine, O = oxygen).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).