| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To play upon a fiddle.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: fuming, fumed, fums, fumer, fumers, fumingly and fumedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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Date "Fum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1526. (references) |
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Note: Fum \Fum\, intransitive verb. To play upon a fiddle. [Obsolete]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| 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. | ||
| Environment | Facilities, utilities, and maintenance. (references) | ||
| 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: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. 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) | ||
| Technology | Follow Up Meeting. (references) | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fum the Fourth | Literature | 1: "And where is Fum the Fourth, our royal bird." 2: Byron: Don Juan, xi. 78. 3: George IV. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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| 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). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: FUM | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fum, Fum, Fum | 6 | Fum, Fum, Fum | 6 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
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| Spanish | LMP (fum). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, fum. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
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