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Main Entry: fa·meous

Pronunciation: famous
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin famosus, from fama fame
Date: 21st century
1 a : well known b : one who is honored for achivements c: one who follows their dreams d: one who never gives up and strives to reach the top d: popular
FAMEOUS
FAMEOUS by FAMEOUS April 25, 2010
Related Words
Adj To be filled with sickness, famine or plague.
The faminous crows hung over the doomed army like a canopy of death
faminous by Ghost of Caesar April 29, 2014
Someone who becomes internet famous through sheer hustle and doing whatever it takes.
I'm vlogging everyday. You know I'm gonna get fainous.
fainous by Zepol Antelope September 18, 2012

familous 

That group of friends were so familous
To be well known in select spaces.
"Yeah Wren is pretty famiquous in the linguistics community"
Famiquous by Burgzoi April 4, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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