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English
Etymology
From Middle English fumousli, fumowsly, equivalent to fumous + -ly.
Adverb
fumously (comparative more fumously, superlative most fumously)
- (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?"