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Etymology

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From Middle English fumousli, fumowsly, equivalent to fumous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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fumously (comparative more fumously, superlative most fumously)

  1. (archaic) In a fumous manner, in fumes; (by extension) angrily
    • 1560, Thomas Wilson, Art of Rhetoric:
      And heaping words upon words, would gladly belike that the party should have carted them away, and well remembered them, and therefore said fumously unto him: “Dost thou hear me?"