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Definition: FUM |
FUMIntransitive verb1. To play upon a fiddle. |
Date "FUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Note: Fum \Fum\, intransitive verb. To play upon fiddle. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
"FUM" is a common misspelling or typo for: fume, fumy, fun, fund, fur. |
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Computing | Fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar). Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Fum or Fung hwang. One of the four symbolical animals supposed to preside over the destinies of the Chinese Empire. It originated from the element of fire, was born in the Hill of the Sun's Halo, and has its body inscribed with the five cardinal virtues. It has the forepart of a goose, the hind-quarters of a stag, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead of a fowl, the down of a duck, the marks of a dragon, the back of a tortoise, the face of a swallow, the beak of a cock, is about six cubits high, and perches only on the woo-tung tree. It is this curious creature that is embroidered on the dresses of certain mandarins. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Noun. Source: Morphed from the English word 'fun'. Definition: A shaven vagina. Context: Used between male members of this social group to ask other male members about sex. Social Source: Nerds in Lake Oswego. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FUM | English | Follow-up meeting | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FUM |
| Specialty definitions using "FUM": baz ♦ Fum the Fourth ♦ Rowland. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FUM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Occitan (smoke), Romanian (flue, fume, reek, smoke, smother, whiff). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fabrica de împachetat fum (1966) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FUM": Fee-faw-fum, Fe-fi-fo-fum. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hi fi fo fum | 10 |
fum | 8 |
fum saumon | 3 |
fee fi fo fum | 3 |
ferrous fum | 2 |
fum poisson | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FUM": fumarase, fumarases, fumarate, fumarates, fumaric, fumarole, fumaroles, fumarolic, fumatories, fumatory, fumble, fumbled, fumbler, fumblers, fumbles, fumbling, fumblingly, fume, fumed, fumeless, fumelike, fumer, fumers, fumes, fumet, fumets, fumette, fumettes, fumier, fumiest, fumigant, fumigants, fumigate, fumigated, fumigates, fumigating, fumigation, fumigations, fumigator, fumigators, fuming, fumingly, fumitories, fumitory, fumuli, fumulus, fumy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FUM": outfumble, outfumbled, outfumbles, outfumbling, perfume, perfumed, perfumer, perfumeries, perfumers, perfumery, perfumes, perfuming, sfumato, sfumatos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "um": Clum, Lum, strum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-m-u" | |
-1 letter: mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-m-u" | |
+1 letter: bumf, fume, fumy, muff. | |
+2 letters: bumfs, fanum, femur, filum, flume, flump, forum, frump, fumed, fumer, fumes, fumet, muffs, mufti. | |
+3 letters: aimful, armful, famous, famuli, fanums, femurs, ferrum, flumed, flumes, flumps, folium, forums, frenum, frumps, frumpy, fulham, fullam, fulmar, fumble, fumers, fumets, fumier, fuming, fumuli, manful, muffed, muffin, muffle, muftis, mugful, tumefy. | |
+4 letters: armfuls, armsful, ausform, brimful, doomful, earmuff, famulus, fauvism, fermium, ferrums, fluming, flummox, flumped, foliums, formful, formula, fraenum, frenums, frustum, fulcrum, fulhams, fullams, fulmars, fulmine, fulsome, fumaric, fumbled, fumbler, fumbles, fumette, fumiest, fumulus, furmety, furmity, hafnium, harmful, jumpoff, mindful, moanful, mouflon, mudfish, mudflap, mudflat, mudflow, muffing, muffins, muffled, muffler, muffles, mugfuls, mummify, museful, perfume, roomful, sfumato, turfman, turfmen, uniform, wamefou, wameful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 55 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F U M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0055 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)405547 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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