Fuller vs Fulsome - What's the difference?
fuller | fulsome |
(full)
A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal.
A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.).
Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
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* 1820 , , The Monastery , ch. 35:
Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
* 1889 , , A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , ch. 34:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 15—Circe:
Abundant, copious.
Fully developed, mature.
As adjectives the difference between fuller and fulsome
is that fuller is comparative of full while fulsome is offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.As a noun fuller
is a person who fulls cloth.As a verb fuller
is to form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer.As a proper noun Fuller
is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a person who fulls cloth.fuller
English
Etymology 1
From full.Adjective
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fullo .Derived terms
* fuller's earth * fuller's herb * fuller's thistle * fuller's weedEtymology 3
origin.Noun
(en noun)fulsome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream. It happened that a young female YAHOO, standing behind a bank, saw the whole proceeding, and inflamed by desire . . . embraced me after a most fulsome manner.
- You will hear the advanced enfans perdus , as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.
- And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"
- Mrs. Bellingham: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs.
- The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
- Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.