fum
English
Etymology 1
Verb
fum (third-person singular simple present fums, present participle fumming, simple past and past participle fummed)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To play upon a fiddle.
- Ben Jonson
- Follow me, and fum as you go.
- Ben Jonson
Etymology 2
Noun
fum (plural fums)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin fūmus. Compare Romanian fum.
Noun
fum n (plural fumuri)
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Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.
Pronunciation
Noun
fum m (uncountable)
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Dalmatian
Etymology
Noun
fum m
Friulian
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Noun
fum m (plural fums)
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Old French
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Etymology
From Latin fūmus. Replaced in later French by fumée.
Noun
fum oblique singular, m (oblique plural funs, nominative singular funs, nominative plural fum)
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin fūmus, from Proto-Italic *fūmos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós.
Noun
fum n (plural fumuri)
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Venetian
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fum m (plural fumi)
See also
Volapük
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fum
Usage notes
This older term has been replaced by furmid "ant".
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