fumer

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːmə(r)

Noun

fumer (plural fumers)

1. One who makes or uses perfumes.
2. That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.
   • 1977, Frankford arsenal, Robert Trifiletti, Gas Generators for Base Drag Reduction‎, page 1:

     The best fumer concepts evaluated to date employ pyrotechnic type mixes with additives (burning rate modifiers, gaseous output modifiers) and/or gas flow-restricting baseplates.

   • 1990, United States Department of the Army, Military Explosives‎, page 3-3:

     Tracers and fumers are small, smoke producing charges that are placed in projectiles. […] A fumer produces smoke at the proper rate to fill the partial vacuum that movement through the air creates behind the projectile.

Anagrams

• femur

Etymology

From Middle French fumer, from Old French, from Latin fūmāre, present active infinitive of fūmō.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /fy.me/

Verb

fumer

1. (transitive, intransitive) to smoke
2. (intransitive) to emit smoke
3. (intransitive) to steam
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 164

     J'en ressortais vers six heures, léger, lavé jusqu'à l'âme et fumant dans le froid comme un torchon mouillé.

     — I would re-emerge at about six o'clock, light and clean right through to the spirit, and steaming in the cold like a damp dishcloth. — 1992, Robyn Marsack (trans.), The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN

Further reading

• “fumer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• fémur

Verb

fūmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fūmō

Verb

fumer

1. to smoke (cook using smoke)