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fullam

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈfʊləm/

Definition of fullam

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (UK, archaic, slang)A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number.
    “Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, the dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to preuent imminent extremitie.”
    “Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds / And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.”
    “Who! he serve? 'sblood, he keeps high men, and low-men, he! he has a fair living at Fullam.”
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noun

  1. (UK, archaic, slang)A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number.
    “Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, the dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to preuent imminent extremitie.”
    “Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds / And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.”
    “Who! he serve? 'sblood, he keeps high men, and low-men, he! he has a fair living at Fullam.”
  2. (UK, archaic, broadly, colloquial)A sham; a hoax; a make-believe.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Fulham, a London suburb, which during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was the most notorious place for blacklegs in all of England. Loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made there.

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