Fulsome vs Fusome - What's the difference?
fulsome | fusome |
Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
*
* 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.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) handy
(UK, dialect, obsolete) neat; handsome
(UK, dialect, obsolete) notable
(biology) A germ cell-specific organelle assembled from membrane skeletal proteins and membranous vesicles
As adjectives the difference between fulsome and fusome
is that fulsome is offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive while fusome is (uk|dialect|obsolete) handy.As a noun fusome is
(biology) a germ cell-specific organelle assembled from membrane skeletal proteins and membranous vesicles.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.
Usage notes
* Common usage tends toward the negative connotation, and using fulsome in the sense of abundant'', ''copious'', or ''mature may lead to confusion without contextual prompts.Synonyms
* (offensive) gross * profuse * (excessively flattering) effusive, unctuousDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)fusome
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Halliwell)