fum n.
[XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar). Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.
Fum (?), v. i.
To play upon a fiddle.
Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.
© Webster 1913.
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