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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.] 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding. 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper. 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also tending to obscenity. [Obs.] ``Fulsome ewes.'' --Shak. -- {Ful"some*ly}, adv -- {Ful"some*ness}, n. --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fulsome adj : unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: {buttery}, {oily}, {oleaginous}, {smarmy}, {unctuous}]
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