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(jargon)fum - At Xerox PARC, often the third standard metasyntactic variable after foo and bar. baz is more common outside PARC.


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" She paused awhile, thinking; then she burst into wild sobbings again, and turned away, saying, "Oh, I got to kill my chile, dey ain't no yuther way--killin' him wouldn't save de chile fum goin' down de river.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
You wants to keep 'way fum de water as much as you kin, en don't run no resk, 'kase it's down in de bills dat you's gwyne to git hung.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
"Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell a story," said Uncle Blair.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
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