foofaraw AmE informal

In the whole foofaraw around Napster, what mostly got lost was the artists.

Lord Foofaraw was the one who served the lamb chops.

"We know you all had a reason for wanting Lord Foofaraw dead!"

"What does that have to do with Lord Foofaraw?"

"You were with Huffy during all this foofaraw?"

But the foofaraw is not forgotten.

"And, from what the scryer says, there's some kind of foofaraw back at the camp.

Lord Foofaraw looked up in annoyance, stopping his story in mid-sentence.

Lord Foofaraw seemed to have regained his composure.

Lord Foofaraw settled comfortably into an overstuffed chair.

Amid all the lunch-with-Bill foofaraw, Karla and me managed to eat together.

He's also not permitted to bring any of that foofaraw into the grounds of Augusta National, as he learned at his press conference.

Lord Foofaraw looked at him skeptically.

"You blamed Lord Foofaraw for your terrible accident, didn't you?

This foofaraw was the etiologic agent in my matriculation to Ohio State University.

Lord Foofaraw seemed amazed.

Lord Foofaraw looked confused.

The Butler looked at Ernie, and then at Lord Foofaraw.

There, in the middle of the Persian carpet, Lord Foofaraw lay dead in a pool of blood.

"I'm Lord Foofaraw.

"And now, suddenly, mysteriously, Lord Foofaraw turns up DEAD!

Food was more important than foofaraw, needles and pins more valuable than velvet bonnets and shoes with French heels.

But behind all the foofaraw were darker and not unfamiliar strains of influence, specifically in clothes that made frank allusion to bondage, fetishes and sadomasochism.

For $22,500 less, you can get the Silver Dawn - the same car but without such niceties as polished wooden picnic tables in the back seat and similar foofaraw.

To the Editor: What is all this foofaraw about Peter Arnett, the Cable News Network reporter in Baghdad during the war against Iraq?