From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fu \Fu\, noun [Chin.] A department in China comprising several hsein; also, the chief city of a department; -- often forming the last part of a name; as, Paoting-fu. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
-fu [common; generalized from 'kung-fu'] Combining form denoting expert practice of a skill. "That's going to take some serious code-fu." First sighted in connection with the GIMP's remote-scripting facility, script-fu, in 1998.
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