fumy

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The passionate, mad words of Jennka came back to her, full of such inescapable despair and unbelief ... Would the all-merciful, all-gracious Lord forgive or would He not forgive her foul, fumy, embittered, unclean life?

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  1. Producing fumes: full of vapor; vaporous. From dice and wine the youth retir'd to rest, And puffed the fumy god from out his breast. Dryden, Æneid. Oppressed with sleep, and drown'd in fumy wine, The prostrate guards their regal charge resign. Brooke, Constantia.

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  • I picture them sleeping in their cots, giving off wine-fumy snores, as you tiptoe cat-like above them. —  FSF,October2007
  • They don't want bus stops, stop trying to turn Chingford into a dirty fumy area, just because you live in one.
  • The passionate, mad words of Jennka came back to her, full of such inescapable despair and unbelief ... Would the all-merciful, all-gracious Lord forgive or would He not forgive her foul, fumy, embittered, unclean life? —  Yama: the pit
  • Would the all-merciful, all-gracious Lord forgive or would He not forgive her foul, fumy, embittered, unclean life? —  Yama: the pit
  • Dive down the fumy AEtna of their brains. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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