fumy
Americanadjective
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Origin of fumy
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Barrel-chested, fumy from cigars, a non-stop talker, Hecht was nevertheless some sort of prize.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Answer: That’s fumy because a lot of people have thought we are from the U.K, but we’re not.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 25, 2016
Eager to have an audience with an elderly cardinal, Mastroianni is led, like a sheet-wrapped Dante, down into a fumy inferno where the cardinal is stewing his skinny bones in a steam bath.
From Time Magazine Archive
He followed Mace and Nettle into the din and fumy stench of the first bar along the front.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
I was carrying a fortune in cash so I kept my eyes sideways and down, on the fumy river of loud trucks and slow tankers flowing underneath us.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
I rejoice to find that the fumier I have been forced to fling on my worn-out ancestral estate is fertilizing its barrenness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
"The old French nobility," continued Churchill, "used to call these low money-matches, 'mettre du fumier sur nos terres.'"
From Tales and Novels — Volume 10 by Maria Edgeworth
A little imp of a boy, "Hardi comme un coq sur son propre fumier," was seated on the chest, and he kept a strict watch over it.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
You remember what Balzac says about projecting any piece of work?—"C'est fumier des cigarettes enchantées…."
From Hauntings by Vernon Lee
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