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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FULSOME

a. 1. Nauseous; offensive.
He that brings fulsome objects to my view, with nauseous images my fancy fills.
2. Rank; offensive to the smell; as a rank and fulsome smell.
3. Lustful; as fulsome ewes.
4. Tending to obscenity; as a fulsome epigram.
These are the English definitions of fulsome, but I have never witnessed such applications of the word in the United States. It seems then that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in. In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness.

 

FULSOMELY

adv. Rankly; nauseously; obscenely.

 

FULSOMENESS

n.Nauseousness; rank smell; obscenity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FULSOME

Ful "some, a. Etym: [Full, a. + -some. ]

 

1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs. ] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.

 

2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp. , offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

 

3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs. ] "Fulsome ewes." Shak. -- Ful "some *ly, adv. -- Ful "some *ness, n. Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fulsome

ful some |ˈfo͝olsəm ˈfʊlsəm | ▶adjective 1 complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree: they are almost embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation. 2 of large size or quantity; generous or abundant: a fulsome harvest. DERIVATIVES ful some ly adverb, ful some ness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘abundant ’): from full 1 + -some 1 . usage: Although the earliest use of fulsome (first recorded in the 13th century ) was ‘generous or abundant, ’ this meaning is now regarded by some people as wrong. The correct meaning today is held to be ‘excessively complimentary or flattering. ’ However, the word is still often used in its original sense of ‘abundant, ’ especially in sentences such as she was fulsome in her praise for the people who organized it, and this use can give rise to ambiguity: for one speaker, fulsome praise may be a genuine compliment, while for others it will be interpreted as an insult.

 

Oxford Dictionary

fulsome

ful |some |ˈfʊls (ə )m | ▶adjective 1 complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree: the press are embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation. 2 of large size or quantity; generous or abundant: the fulsome details of the later legend. DERIVATIVES fulsomely adverb, fulsomeness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘abundant ’): from full 1 + -some 1 . usage: Although the earliest use of fulsome (first recorded in the 13th century ) was ‘generous or abundant ’, this meaning is now regarded by some people as wrong. The correct meaning today is held to be ‘excessively complimentary or flattering ’. However, the word is still often used in its original sense of ‘abundant ’, especially in sentences such as she was fulsome in her praise for the people who organized it, and this use can give rise to ambiguity: for one speaker, fulsome praise may be a genuine compliment, whereas for others it will be interpreted as an insult.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fulsome

fulsome adjective he paid fulsome tribute to his secretary: excessive, extravagant, overdone, immoderate, inordinate, over-appreciative, flattering, adulatory, fawning, unctuous, ingratiating, cloying, saccharine; enthusiastic, effusive, rapturous, glowing, gushing, profuse, generous, lavish; informal over the top, smarmy. WORD NOTE fulsome Revenge is a dish best savored when taken cold. At last, some years after writing The Professor and the Madman, I can now have my say in reply to those who accused me of misusing the word fulsome. I imagine I must have had 60 letters from readers, all professing outrage that in the book I had employed the phrase The most fulsome remarks made about the volunteers … and had in doing so misapplied and misunderstood the word grotesquely. Fulsome, they thundered, means "physically loathsome, foul, disgusting. " How dare I to misuse it so —and in, of all places, a book about words? Does this not place the credibility of the entire book at stake? Well, I can reply at last: no it does not, because fulsome does mean exactly what I wanted it to mean: "abundant, plentiful, tending to cloying overabundance " usually used in reference to gross or excessive flattery, over-demonstrative affection, or the like. The readers who fulminated so were using out-of-date dictionaries, or prescriptive texts that demanded rather than described how words should, in the opinions of a small band of editors, be used. Fulsome, admittedly once laden with pejorative senses, has lately come to mean "abundant and excessive. " Words evolve (as the Oxford English Dictionary constantly reminds us ) and they do so evidently rather more rapidly than does the thinking and lexical understanding (this being the revenge, here supped on cold ) of some of my correspondents. — SW Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fulsome

fulsome adjective he paid fulsome tribute to his secretary: enthusiastic, ample, profuse, extensive, generous, liberal, lavish, glowing, gushing, gushy; excessive, extravagant, overdone, immoderate, inordinate, over-appreciative; fawning, ingratiating; adulatory, laudatory, acclamatory, eulogistic, rapturous, flattering, complimentary, effusive, cloying, unctuous, saccharine, sugary, honeyed; informal over the top, OTT, buttery; formal encomiastic.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fulsome

ful some /fʊ́ls (ə )m /形容詞 1 〈お世辞 謝辞などが 〉 (嫌味なほど )度を越した .2 豊富な .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞