fumette

English

Alternative forms

• fumet

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fumet (“odour of wine or meat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fumus (“smoke”). See fume.

Noun

fumette

1. The stench or high flavour of game or other meat when kept long.
   • Jonathan Swift

     A haunch of venison made her sweat, / Unless it had the right fumette.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “fumette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From fumer +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.mɛt/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

fumette f (plural fumettes)

1. (slang) toke (of cannabis cigarette)

Further reading

• “fumette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.