Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.Henley, William Ernest
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Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7] : $b A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.
Henley, William Ernest
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2. (colloquial).—A sham; a make-believe (q.v.). [From sense 1.]
1664. Butler, Hudibras, ii., 1, Fulhams of poetic fiction.
Fulham Virgin, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A fast woman. Cf., Bankside
lady; Covent Garden nun; St. John’s Wood vestal, etc.
Fulk, verb (old schoolboys’).—To use an unfair motion of the hand in
plumping at taw.—Grose.
Fulke, verb (venery).—To copulate. [A euphemism suggested by Byron in
Don Juan, the first and last words of which, so adepts tell you, are
‘I’ and ‘fulke.’]
Fulker, subs. (old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms, see Uncle.
1566. Gascoigne, Supposes, ii., 3. The Fulker will not lend you a
farthing upon it.
Full, adj. (colloquial).—1. Drunk. For synonyms, see Drinks and
Screwed.
1888. Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. When he was full the police came
and jugged.
2. (turf). Used by bookmakers to signify that they have laid all the
money they wish against a particular horse.
Full-guts, subs. phr. (common).—A swag-bellied man or woman.
A Full hand, subs. phr. (American waiters’). Five large beers. For
analogous expressions, see Go.
Full in the belly, subs. phr. (colloquial).—With child.
Full in the pasterns (or the hocks), subs. phr.
(colloquial).—Thick-ankled.
Full team, subs. phr. (American).—An eulogium. A man is a full team
when of consequence in the community. Variants are whole team, or whole
team and a horse to spare. Cf. one-horse = mean, insignificant, or
strikingly small.
Full in the waistcoat, adj. phr. (colloquial).—Swag-bellied.
Full of ’em, adj. phr. (common).—Lousy; nitty; full of fleas.
Full to the bung, adj. phr. (colloquial).—Very drunk. For synonyms, see
Drinks and Screwed.
To have (or wear) a full suit of mourning, verb. phr. (pugilists’).—To
have two black eyes. Half-mourning = one black eye. For synonyms, see
Mouse.
To come full bob, verb. phr. (old colloquial).—To come suddenly; to
come full tilt.
1672. Marvell, Rehearsal Transposed (in Grosart, iii., 414). The
page and you meet full bob.
Full against, adv. phr. 1. Dead, or decidedly opposed to, a person,
thing, or place.
Full-bottomed (or -breeched, or -pooped), adv. phr. (colloquial).—Broad
in the hind; barge-arsed (q.v.)
Full-flavoured, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Peculiarly rank: as a story, an
exhibition of profane swearing, an emission of wind, etc.
Full-fledged, adv. phr. (venery).—Ripe for defloration.
Full-gutted, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Stout; swag-bellied.
Full of emptiness, adv. phr. (common).—Utterly void.
Full on, adv. phr. (colloquial).—Set strongly in a given direction,
especially in an obscene sense: e.g., full on for it or full on for one
= ready and willing au possible.
At full chisel, adv. phr. (American).—At full speed; with the greatest
violence or impetuousity. Also full drive; full split. Cf. hickety
split; ripping; staving along; two-thirty, etc.
In full blast, swing, etc., adv. phr. (colloquial).—In the height of
success; in hot pursuit.
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