fumer

See also: fúmer and fümer

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfjuːmə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

Noun

fumer (plural fumers)

  1. One who makes or uses perfumes.
  2. That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.
    • 1977, Frankford arsenal, Robert Trifiletti, Gas Generators for Base Drag Reduction, page 1:
      The best fumer concepts evaluated to date employ pyrotechnic type mixes with additives (burning rate modifiers, gaseous output modifiers) and/or gas flow-restricting baseplates.
    • 1990, United States Department of the Army, Military Explosives, page 3-3:
      Tracers and fumers are small, smoke producing charges that are placed in projectiles. [] A fumer produces smoke at the proper rate to fill the partial vacuum that movement through the air creates behind the projectile.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From fum + -er.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fumer (feminine fumera, masculine plural fumers, feminine plural fumeres)

  1. producing smoke, smoking

Further reading

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fumer, from Old French, from Latin fūmāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fy.me/
  • (file)

Verb

fumer

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to smoke
  2. (intransitive) to emit smoke
  3. (intransitive) to steam
    • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 164; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:
      J’en ressortais vers six heures, léger, lavé jusqu’à l’âme et fumant dans le froid comme un torchon mouillé.
      — I would re-emerge at about six o'clock, light and clean right through to the spirit, and steaming in the cold like a damp dishcloth.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: füme (via past participle)

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

fūmer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fūmō

Middle French

Verb

fumer

  1. to smoke (cook using smoke)

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
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