Patty Fulmer, an unprincipled, flashy woman, living with Fulmer, with the brevet rank of wife. She is a swindler, a scandal-monger, anything, in short, to turn a penny by; but her villainy brings her to grief.—Cumberland, The West Indian (1771).
Fum, George IV. The Chinese fum is a mixture of goose, stag, and snake, with the beak of a cock; a combination of folly, cowardice, malice, and conceit.
And where is Fum the Fourth, our royal bird?
Byron, Don Juan, xi. 78 (1824).
Fum-Hoam, the mandarin who restored Malek-al-Salem, king of Georgia, to his throne, and related to the king’s daughter Gulchenraz [Gundogdi] his numerous metamorphoses; he was first Piurash, who murdered Siamek the usurper; then a flea; then a little dog; then an Indian maiden named Massouma; then a bee; then a cricket; then a mouse; then Abzenderoud the imaum´; then the daughter of a rich Indian merchant, the Jezdad of Iolcos, the greatest beauty of Greece; then a foundling found by a dyer in a box; then Dugmê, queen of Persia; then a young woman named Hengu; then an ape; then a midwife’s daughter of Tartary; then the only son of the sultan of Agra; then an Arabian physician; then a wild man named Kolao; then a slave; then the son of a cadi of Erzerûm; then a dervise; then an Indian prince; and lastly Fum-Hoam.—T.S. Gueulette, Chinese Tales (1723).
Fum-Hoam, first president of the ceremonial academy of Pekin.—Goldsmith, Citizen of the World (1764).
Funk (Peter), auctioneer whose business is to cheat the unwary. Having been branded by a placard placed before his door, “Beware of Mock Auctions!” he concerts a scheme for labeling other places of business and general resort, including newspaper offices and churches.—Charles Frederick Briggs, The Knickerbocker Magazine (1846).
Fungo´so, a character in Ben Jonson’s drama, Every Man in His Humour (1598).
Unlucky as Fungoso in the play.
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 328 (1711).