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noun
1.
Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
2.
an irritable or angry mood: He has been in a fume ever since the contract fell through.
verb (used with object)
3.
to emit or exhale, as fumes or vapor: giant stacks fuming their sooty smoke.
4.
to treat with or expose to fumes.
5.
to show fretful irritation or anger: She always fumes when the mail is late.
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Fumeless
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
verb (used without object)
6.
to rise, or pass off, as fumes: smoke fuming from an ashtray.
7.
to emit fumes: The leaky pipe fumed alarmingly.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French fum < Latin fūmus smoke, steam, fume
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French fum < Latin fūmus smoke, steam, fume
Related forms
fume·less, adjective
fume·like, adjective
fum·er, noun
fum·ing·ly, adverb
un·fum·ing, adjective
Synonyms
2. rage, fury, agitation, storm. 5. chafe, fret.
2. rage, fury, agitation, storm. 5. chafe, fret.
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Word Origin & History
fume
late 14c., from O.Fr. fum "smoke, steam, vapor," from L. fumus "smoke" (v.), from PIE *dhumo- (cf. Skt. dhumah, O.C.S. dymu, Lith. dumai, O.Prus. dumis "smoke," M.Ir. dumacha "fog," Gk. thymos "spirit, mind, soul"). The verb is first recorded c.1400, from O.Fr. fumer, from L. fumare "to smoke, steam;"
EXPANDfigurative sense of "show anger" is first recorded 1520s. Related: Fumed; fuming.
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fume  (fy m) Pronunciation Key
Smoke, vapor, or gas, especially if irritating, harmful, or smelly. |
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