fugu

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚 (fugu, “blowfish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.ɡuː/

fugu (uncountable)

1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
   • 2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.

fugu

1. Alternative form of fug

From Portuguese fogo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fogu.

fugu

1. fire

fugu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぐ
2. Rōmaji transcription of フグ

fugu m (plural fugus)

1. fugu (blowfish, as a Japanese delicacy)

• IPA^(key): [ˈfu.ɡu]

fugu

1. (stative) to be hunched

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

fugú

1. island