“Foofaraw” can be traced back to “fanfaron” (“boastful”) in French and “fanfarrón” (“ostentatious”) in Spanish, but in English, the word has a meaning closer to “frou-frou.” It was used as a slang term in the West to mean something tacky and gaudy, which contributes to the definition today of something unnecessarily frilly. The other definition is also American, and this “foofaraw” is “a big fuss made over a minor matter.”