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To: epicure who wrote (67219)	2/25/2005 4:16:01 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

It's a fine old word at the end of a long and dignified tenure in our language. Scholars largely agree that it derives from the Medieval French foufie or foufe (accent aigu on the end there) meaning "obsessed with one's hair", literally "more wig than judge". The word may be related to the ancient Saxon fufg, which might best be translated "dorky, lightweight, overstyled". A vulgar form of fufg, fufge is recognized; it denotes effeminacy, sexual confusion. This may be why Chaucer referred to "dogges in dragge".

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