Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fumy; producing fumes or eructations.
- In botany, smoke-colored; fuliginous; gray changing to brown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing smoke; smoky.
- adjective Producing fumes; full of fumes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or resembling
fumes orsmoke .
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Examples
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And the firmness of the formous of the famous of the fumous of the first fog in Maidanvale? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Hence the lungs do not inspire sufficient air to mitigate the innate heat of the heart, and the heart fails to purify itself of the fumosity or fumous vapors generated in itself.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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If a too fumous wine confounds at length thy brain --
All About Coffee 1909
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"And now, gentlemen," said Clifford, as soon as the revellers had provided themselves with their wonted luxuries, potatory and fumous, "let us hear your adventures, and rejoice our eyes with their produce.
Paul Clifford — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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