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adj
Characterised or marked by foulness or filth; filthy; (by extension) wretched.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
A variant of fulsome, from Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”), remodelled after foul. Equivalent to foul + -some. Cognate with Scots foulsome, fowsum.
