fumer

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːmə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

fumer (plural fumers)

1. One who makes or uses perfumes.
2. That which fumes, something that produces or emits smoke or other vapor.
   • 1977, Frankford arsenal, Robert Trifiletti, Gas Generators for Base Drag Reduction‎^[1], page 1:

     The best fumer concepts evaluated to date employ pyrotechnic type mixes with additives (burning rate modifiers, gaseous output modifiers) and/or gas flow-restricting baseplates.

   • 1990, United States Department of the Army, Military Explosives‎^[2], page 3-3:

     Tracers and fumers are small, smoke producing charges that are placed in projectiles. […] A fumer produces smoke at the proper rate to fill the partial vacuum that movement through the air creates behind the projectile.

• femur

From fum +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fuˈme]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fuˈmeɾ]

fumer (feminine fumera, masculine plural fumers, feminine plural fumeres)

1. producing smoke, smoking

• “fumer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Middle French fumer, from Old French, from Latin fūmāre.

• IPA^(key): /fy.me/

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fumer

1. (ambitransitive) to smoke
2. (intransitive) to emit smoke
3. (intransitive) to steam
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 164; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:

     J'en ressortais vers six heures, léger, lavé jusqu'à l'âme et fumant dans le froid comme un torchon mouillé.

     — I would re-emerge at about six o'clock, light and clean right through to the spirit, and steaming in the cold like a damp dishcloth.

• fumet
• fumeux
• fumiste

• → Turkish: füme (via past participle)

• “fumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fémur

fūmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fūmō

fumer

1. to smoke (cook using smoke)

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.