fulsome

Significado (Inglés)

  1. Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
  2. Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
  3. Characterised or marked by fullness; abundant, copious.
  4. Fully developed; mature.

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈfʊlsəm/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From Middle English fulsom, equivalent to full + -some. The meaning has evolved from an original positive connotation "abundant" to a neutral "plump" to a negative "overfed". In modern usage, it can take on any of these inflections. See usage note. The negative sense "offensive, gross; disgusting, sickening" developed secondarily after the 13th century and was influenced by Middle English foul (“foul”). In the 18th century, the word was sometimes even spelled foulsome.

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