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fumacious

fumacious adjective: smoky.

Adjective

fumacious (comparative more fumacious, superlative most fumacious)

  1. Smoky.
  2. Fond of smoking tobacco.
    • Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco; and all the charms of the veil and the fan can scarcely reconcile the most fumacious American to the cigarrito of the Spanish...1861, Atlantic Monthly

Forms of fumacious

comparativemore fumacious
superlativemost fumacious

Origin of fumacious

From fume + -acious.

Questions about fumacious

What does fumacious mean?
Fumacious means smoky.
What part of speech is fumacious?
Fumacious is an adjective.

Words near fumacious in the dictionary

  1. Fulwiler
  2. Fulwilers
  3. Fulwood
  4. Fulwoods
  5. fum
  6. fumacious
  7. fumadiddle
  8. fumadiddles
  9. fumado
  10. fumadoes
  11. fumados

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