fumy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fumy
Example Sentences
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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
Bass Player Mingus and men play a number of his own compositions and two by Ellington �Things Ain't What They Used to Be and Mood Indigo�in moods alternately fumy and quietly sinuous.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The car is hot and fumy, even though the windows are open, and when the second movie starts, Roamer and Amanda lie down flat in the enormous front seat and go almost completely quiet.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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