Definition of FOU

fou

Adj

  • Drunk.

Adjective

  • Drunk or intoxicated (Scottish).

Examples

  • After several hours, the game turned ’fou’ with wild, risky plays and forgotten rules.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Scots fou. Compare full, a doublet.

Synonyms

Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Scrabble Score: 6

fou: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fou: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fou: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

fou: valid Words With Friends Word