Fulham

//ˈfʊləm// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
Noun
  1. 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. 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"

Etymology

Etymology 1

So called because loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, originally in Middlesex, England.

Etymology 2

From Old English Fullanhām, Fullanhōm, from personal name *Fulla + Old English hamm (“riverbend land”).

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