Fulham
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of fullam (“loaded die”). UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, slang
"“Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!”"
- 2 Alternative form of fullam (“sham”). UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, broadly, colloquial
"As one cut out to pass your tricks on, / With fulhams of poetic fiction"
- 1 An area in southwestern London, England, on the north side of the River Thames.
"There were only four in the starting XIs as Sunderland were beaten 1-0 by Jol's side – Jack Colback and Adam Johnson for Sunderland and Kieran Richardson and Steve Sidwell for Fulham – but Jol's shrug was one of resignation rather than indifference."
- 2 A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Example
More examples"“Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!”"
Etymology
So called because loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, originally in Middlesex, England.
From Old English Fullanhām, Fullanhōm, from personal name *Fulla + Old English hamm (“riverbend land”).
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