Loo vs Foo - What's the difference?
loo | foo |
(colloquial, Australia, NZ, UK) A toilet.
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The card game lanterloo.
A hot, dusty wind in Bihar and the Punjab.
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(computing) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
As a verb loo
is .As a proper noun foo is
(dated|fandom slang|jocular) a mock deity of early science fiction fandom; a fannish ghod.loo
English
Etymology 1
Uncertain; possible origins include: * French lieux'', short for ''lieux d'aisances ‘toilets’, literally ‘places of convenience’. * A particular brand of early toilet cisterns, trademarked 'Waterloo'. A common folk etymology is that the word comes from the exclamation gardyloo'', from French ''garde à l'eau ‘mind the water!’, used when emptying dirty water or slops out of a window onto the public sidewalk or street.Noun
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- Ensure that the tents are well-sited and clean, rubbish bins empty and that the loos have toilet paper.
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- The lack of running water in rural areas often makes Western-style loos hygienic disasters. Suddenly the noncontact squat toilet doesn?t look like such a bad option any more (as long as you roll up your trouser legs).
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- Waterless urinals are a great way of keeping the guys out of the cubicle toilets, keeping the urine separated from the solid waste (when using composting loos') and reducing water consumption if you have flush ' loos .
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Etymology 2
Shortened form of lanterloo.Noun
(-)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(-)- It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo , the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.
foo
English
Etymology 1
Circa 1935 as nonsense word, circa 1960 in programming sense. (detailed etymology) Originated circa 1935 as nonsense word in (Smokey Stover)'' comic strip (1935–73) by (Bill Holman) (from which also foo fighter).“foo]”, ''[http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html The Jargon FileHolman states that his usage was from seeing “foo” on the base of a jade (etyl) figurine in , meaning “good luck”, presumably a transliteration of the (fu character) , "
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Noun
(wikipedia foo) (-)- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar .