† fewmv.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) < a variant of fume v. in an otherwise unattested sense ‘to cause to smell’ (perhaps a negative application of fume v. 1c), or perhaps (ii) < French fumer to manure, to soil (see fumet n.¹, and compare fumishing n.).Apparently intended as a present participle (compare -and suffix¹), with the auxiliary verb understood. Jonson’s imagined Sherwood dialect appears to owe much to northern English and Scots. Compare a later use, based on the instance in Jonson and evidently interpreting that as meaning ‘smelly, stinking’:1783 F. G. Waldron Contin. in B. Jonson's Sad Shepherd iii. 71 Sprad in a spongy fungus' fewmand shade, This swoll'n and speckle-bellied toad was laid.