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Date "FURMITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1706. (references)

Specialty Definition: FURMITY

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Slang in 1811FURMITY, or FROMENTY. Wheat boiled up to a jelly. To simper like a furmity kettle: to smile, or look merry about the gills. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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