or fu-fu
noun
A thick, doughlike West African food made by boiling and pounding a starchy vegetable such as yam, plantain, or cassava.
Origin of fufu
From Twi fufuu Ewe fufu Yoruba fùfú or kindred words in many other languages of West Africafufu
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