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Foofy vs Oofy - What's the difference?

foofy | oofy |

In slang|lang=en terms the difference between foofy and oofy

is that foofy is (slang) big and fluffy while oofy is (slang) wealthy, having lots of oof (money).

As adjectives the difference between foofy and oofy

is that foofy is (slang) excessively frilly or frou-frou, typically in a manner calculated to attract attention to an otherwise unremarkable person or event while oofy is (slang) wealthy, having lots of oof (money).

foofy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (slang) Excessively frilly or frou-frou, typically in a manner calculated to attract attention to an otherwise unremarkable person or event.
  • (slang) Poofy; inflated in a funny way.
  • (slang) Big and fluffy.

    • Quotations

    * 2001. Meg Cabot. The Princess Diaries , HarperCollins, page 107: *: I had to sit down on one of the pink foofy chairs before I fell down.

    References

    * foofy'', in ''Cat Dictionary . * Reuter, Donald F. (2006) Gay-2-Zee: A Dictionary of Sex, Subtext, and the Sublime , page 79.[http://books.google.com/books?id=7FpPbfVRm3MC&pg=PA79&dq=foofy&ei=mbIGSMekOYjgsQOmlOTiCg&sig=_bNDu1QknrnIr-yF4HHUpCnpSMU] English blends

    oofy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Wealthy, having lots of oof (money).
  • * 1896 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , volume 160, page 727:
    • … the glorious Tinman, or my oofy maiden-aunt; wouldn't she have jumped at me, if she had?
  • * 1907', John Brynildsen, ''Engelsk-Dansk-Norsk Ordbog'' / ''A dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian languages'', part II (N–Z), entry for ' oof , page 49 ( archive.org ebook):
    • … oofy ['u·fi] sl som har megen Mønt …
  • * 1909 , , The Prodigal Father , page 185 ( Gutenberg ebook):
    • Money isn't everything in this world. Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law.
  • * 1934 , ( Gutenberg ebook):
    • This Tom has a peculiarity I've noticed in other very oofy men. Nick him for the paltriest sum, and he lets out a squawk you can hear at Land's End. He has the stuff in gobs, but he hates giving up.

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