To smother him with fumes and eulogies.
Burton.
In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.
Fume, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fumed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fuming.] [Cf. F.
fumer, L. fumare to smoke. See Fume, n.] 1. To smoke; to throw off
fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor.
Where the golden altar fumed.
Milton.
Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
Roscommon.