fu suffix— «She didn’t win, but it was pretty clear she was there not to demonstrate her superior cooking fu but to spread the word of Thai food to Japan.» —by Trip Trip’s Brain-Sucking Web Site Jan. 26, 2002. (source:...
foo suffix— «I am so sure I have read something about this recently, but I’m dammed if I can find it again, my google foo is weak today.» —“your call cannot be completed as dialled” by Lensman alt.ph.uk Aug. 11...
–fu suffix indicating mastery or expertise. Also foo. Editorial Note: Film critic Joe Bob Briggs, who tends to sprinkle the suffix throughout his reviews, is often credited with popularizing it. Etymological Note: Probably from kung fu, a...
—fu suffix— «The purpose is to make a button generator accessable from the web where users can create their sets of images. I do this with the Perl-Fu.» —“Hello!” by Hans Svensson (hans@ITcampus.org) Usenet:...
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suffix— «anyway, it’s shy on monsters and breasts, but great religon-fu.» —“Re: UFOria” by tomp@amiga.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky) Usenet: net.movies Mar. 14, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
anaspora n.— «A professor in Hawaii, however, had given it the old college try. He terms it “anaspora.” “The stem for ‘diaspora’ is speirein, meaning to scatter, and the prefix dia means apart. An antonym for ‘diaspora’...