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fumish

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Etymology

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From fume +‎ -ish.

Adjective

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fumish (comparative more fumish, superlative most fumish)

  1. (obsolete) Pertaining to fumes or smoke. [16th–17th c.]
    • 1631, John Smith, Advertisements, Kupperman, published 1988, page 82:
      Notwithstanding, out of the relicks of our miseries, time and experience had brought that Country to a great happinesse, had they not so much doated on their Tabacco, on whose fumish foundation there is small stability []