mafufo

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• IPA^(key): /maˈfufo/ [maˈfu.fo]
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Syllabification: ma‧fu‧fo

mafufo (feminine mafufa, masculine plural mafufos, feminine plural mafufas)

1. (colloquial, Mexico) crazy; unhinged

mafufo m (plural mafufos, feminine mafufa, feminine plural mafufas)

1. (colloquial, Mexico) A crazy person.

• “mafufo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “mafufo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “mafufo”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
• Guido Gómez de Silva (2001), “mafufo”, in Diccionario breve de mexicanismos, Primera edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua