subs. (American).—A person of no account; an insignificant idiot; a POOP (q.v.).

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  1837.  A Glance at New York (in BARTLETT). Don’t know what a FOO-FOO is? Well, as you’re a greenhorn, I’ll enlighten you. A FOO-FOO, or an outsider, is a chap that can’t come the big figure.

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