FULSOME

fulsome. Fulsome, a. nauseous, rank, offensive, obscene

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Ful″some (?), a. [[Full, a. + -some.]] 1. 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding. 2. 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. 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. “Fulsome ewes.” Shak.
— Ful″some‐ly, adv. — Ful″some‐ness, n. Dryden.