Example sentences for: fooey

How can you use “fooey” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The childish exclamation peeyoo! , for instance, probably stems from a distorted rendering of phew! , just as another air-and-spit expression of disgust was once rendered as pfui! but gradually turned into fooey! , which is both easier to read and pronounce.

  • Term of disgust... Very probably, hackish foo had no single origin and derives from Yiddish feh and/or English fooey.


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