–fu

suffix indicating mastery or expertise. Also foo. Subjects: English

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 Chinese martial art, and probably not related to the foobar, fubar, or the foo often used by programmers.

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Citations: [1986 [tomp@amiga.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky)] Usenet: net.movies (Mar. 14) “Re: UFOria”: anyway, it’s shy on monsters and breasts, but great religon-fu.] 1998 [Hans Svensson (hans@ITcampus.org)] Usenet: comp.graphics.apps.gimp (Oct. 14) “Hello!”: 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. 1999 [ARCmage (arcmage@innocent.com)] Usenet: alt.callahans (Oct. 9) “Re: Toast: Blue Thing!!!”: Master of DejaNews Search-Fu. 2002 [Trip] Trip’s Brain-Sucking Web Site (Jan. 26): 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. 2003 Juha Saarinen OCTools (Dec. 8) “Highpoint e.SATA RAID kit: Installation and Setup”: This is the typical approach for low-end RAID adapters, and it isn’t necessarily bad—it does require good driver-writing-fu though.

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