Word of the Day Archive
Wednesday January 17, 2007
foofaraw \FOO-fuh-raw\
, noun:
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.
A somber, muted descending motif opens and closes the work, which is brief but effective. It provided much needed relief from the fanfares and foofaraw in which brass-going composers so often indulge.
-- Philip Kennicott, "Brass Spectacular is a Spectacle of Special Sound", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 17, 1997
As usual, with all cooperation with Tom Lea, Art becomes a "taking away" process rather than the adding of ornaments, rules, and other foofaraw.
-- David R. Farmer, Stanley Marcus: A Life With Books
Making the Times best-seller list, or a movie, or all that other foofaraw is not necessarily proof of [a novel's] lasting significance.
-- Roger K. Miller, "Peyton Place' was remarkably good bad novel", Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 29, 1996
Foofaraw is perhaps from Spanish fanfarrón, "a braggart."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for foofaraw
