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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Alternative form of fulsome; offensive; loathsome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, alt-of, alternative
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adj
Handy, deft-handed, workmanlike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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adj
Neat; handsome, comely, shapely, attractive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, obsolete
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noun
A germ cell-specific organelle assembled from membrane skeletal proteins and membranous vesicles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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History
Alternative form of fulsome
From Middle English *fussom, equivalent to fouse (eager, ready, brave, noble) + -some.
From fuse + -ome.
