fum
1
9.9
To send out smoke or mist, often slowly from a fire
- other
- /fʌm/
- Archaic
:
fumar
- In the distance, they could see fum rising from the ancient volcano.
- Fee-fi-fo-fum
Examples
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♪ So "fee-fi-fo-fum" ♪ ♪ Look out, baby ♪ ♪ because here I come.
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I did not speak the language and understand not fe fl fo fum, so I...
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Fe-fi-fo-fum!
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So, fee-fi-fo- fum
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Fee fi foh fum...
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Fee fi foh fum!
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♪ Fe fi fo fum ♪ Fe fi fo fum
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♪ Fe fi fo fum ♪ Fe fi fo fum
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As the old cottage burned, clouds of fum filled the air.
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The campfire sent a thin stream of fum into the night sky.
Synonyms
to smoke
vsfum
102
1.5
To send out a cloud of tiny particles and gas from burning
appears mainly in older or poetic language rather than everyday neutral usage
to fume
vsfum
1
4.6
To give off visible smoke or gas from something
appears mainly in older or poetic language rather than modern speech
to fumer
vsfum
9.3
To produce smoke or gas when something burns
appears mainly in older or poetic language rather than technical contexts
How Smoky
Surface Forms
fum main
Etymology
Fum comes from the Latin word fumus 'smoke', the same root you see in fume and fumigate. To fum means to give off smoke or a soft mist, so the origin explains why it means 'to smoke' or send out vapor.