fum

See also: fúm, fûm, and füm

English

Etymology 1

Verb

fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.
    • Ben Jonson
      Follow me, and fum as you go.

Etymology 2

Noun

fum (plural fums)

  1. (mythology, obsolete) A mythological Chinese bird, the fènghuáng.
    • 1823, Richard Sickelmore, The history of Brighton from the earliest period to the present time
      The fum is a bird said to be found in no part of the world but China. It is described as of most admirable beauty, and if at any time absent, or long unseen, it is regarded as an omen of some misfortune to the royal family.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Compare Daco-Romanian fum.

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

  1. smoke

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum m (uncountable)

  1. smoke

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fames.

Noun

fum m

  1. hunger

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin fūmus.

Noun

fum m (plural fums)

  1. smoke

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.

Noun

fum m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)

  1. smoke

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.

Noun

fum n (plural fumuri)

  1. smoke

Declension

Derived terms

Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fumus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fum m (plural fumi)

  1. smoke

See also

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourmi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fum]

Noun

fum

  1. (obsolete) ant (insect)

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by furmid "ant".

Declension

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