Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fullness; abundance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Northern England, Scotland
Fullness ;abundance ;plenty . - noun Northern England, Scotland
Fill ;sufficiency ;repletion ;satiety . - noun Northern England, Scotland (of flowers)
Full growth ;perfection .
Etymologies
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From Middle English fulth, fulthe, from Old English fylleþ ("fullness", in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *fulliþō (“fullness”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelǝ-, *plē- (“to fill”), equivalent to full + -th. Cognate with Middle High German vüllede ("fullness").
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Examples
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Then I changed the beginning to “In the fulth of Wayland Street / I talked to my neighbor Nan.”
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Then I changed the beginning to “In the fulth of Wayland Street / I talked to my neighbor Nan.”
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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