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English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin f?mus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?mós (“smoke”), from *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fju?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

fume (plural fumes)

1. A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
   • 1753, Thomas Warton, Ode

     the fumes of new-shorn hay

2. A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.

3. Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.

   • The Fumes of his Passion do as really intoxicate and confound his judging and discerning Faculty , as the Fumes of Drink discompose and stupify the Brain of a Man over - charged with it.

4. Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     a show of fumes and fancies

5. The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
   • 1638, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

     to smother him with fumes and eulogies

6. (obsolete) A passionate person.

Usage notes

• In the sense of strong-smelling or dangerous vapor, the noun is typically plural, as in the example.

Translations

Verb

fume (third-person singular simple present fumes, present participle fuming, simple past and past participle fumed)

1. (transitive) To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints.
2. (transitive) To apply or offer incense to.
3. (intransitive) To emit fumes.
4. (intransitive) To pass off in fumes or vapours.

   • whose parts are kept from fuming away, not only by their fixity […]

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To express or feel great anger.

   • He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
6. (intransitive, figuratively) To be as in a mist; to be dulled and stupefied.

Translations

Asturian

Verb

fume

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fumar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fumar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fym/

Verb

fume

1. first-person singular present indicative of fumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fumer
5. second-person singular imperative of fumer

Anagrams

• meuf

Galician

Alternative forms

• fumo

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fumo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin f?mus. Cognate with Portuguese fumo and Spanish humo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fume?/

Noun

fume m (plural fumes)

1. smoke
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 209:

     coyda que o bafo et fume daquel fogo que ensuzou et [empoçoou] as agoas et aterra daly

     he thinks that the fumes and the smoke of that fire defiled and poisoned the waters and the soil there

   • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 326:

     a vida deste mundo he asy como a sonbra, et quando ome se deleyta en ella he asy como o fumo que se vay logo

     the life in this world is like the shadow, and when a man delight in it is like the 'smoke, which soon goes away

2. fume

   Synonyms: bafo, vapor

3. (figuratively, in the plural) haughtiness

Related terms

• afumar
• fumar
• fumegar
• fumeiro
• fumador
• fumaxe

Verb

fume

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fumar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fumar

References

• “fume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fume” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “fume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fume” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fume” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Noun

f?me

1. vocative singular of f?mus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French fum, from Latin f?mus, from Proto-Indo-European *d?uh?mós.

Alternative forms

• fwme, feum, fewme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiu?m/

Noun

fume (plural fumes)

1. Visible gaseous emanations; fumes or smoke.
2. Any sort of vapour or gaseous emanation.
3. (physiology) Fumes as the supposed cause of feelings.
4. (rare) An airborne scent or odour.

Related terms

• fumen
• fumerelle
• fumosite
• fumous
• fumygacioun
• fumyter

Descendants

• English: fume
• Scots: fume

References

• “f?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-03.

Etymology 2

From Old French fumer.

Verb

fume

1. Alternative form of fumen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fume (present tense fumar, past tense fuma, past participle fuma, passive infinitive fumast, present participle fumande, imperative fum)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by fomme

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fu.mi/

Verb

fume

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of fumar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of fumar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of fumar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of fumar

Spanish

Verb

fume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fumar.

Tarantino

Noun

fume

1. smoke

English

Etymology

white +? cap

Noun

whitecap (plural whitecaps)

1. Any of several birds having a white patch on the head
2. A wave having a white crest; a breaker
3. (US, historical) A member of a self-appointed vigilante committee that carried out lynchings. Some early ones wore white hoods or masks.

   Synonym: whitecapper

Derived terms

• whitecapping

References

• whitecap at OneLook Dictionary Search
• whitecap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia