Fum

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fum \Fum\, v. i.
     To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Follow me, and fum as you go.            --B. Jonson.
     [1913 Webster]



From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard
     {metasyntactic variable}s (after {foo} and {bar}). Competes with {baz},
     which is more common outside PARC.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  fum
       
           At {Xerox PARC}, often the third standard
          {metasyntactic variable} after {foo} and {bar}.  {baz} is more
          common outside PARC.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (2003-09-24)