fumacious

adj — 2 senses

fumacious

adj

Etymology From fume + -acious.

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 fair.1861, Atlantic Monthly:

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