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1. itre.cis.upenn.edu › ~myl › languagelogLanguage Log: <i>The Queen</i>'s English - itre.cis.upenn.edu

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   Jan 31, 2007 · The Queen's English. Over at the blog of the Norman Lear Center, Leo Braudy makes a nice observation about the dialogue in The Queen, where Queen Elizabeth uses fulsome to describe praise that is merely abundant, rather than being oleaginous or smarmy. True, that usage is common enough among educated speakers, but was it a deliberate choice to ...

2. itre.cis.upenn.edu › ~myl › languagelogLanguage Log: January 2007 Archives - University of Pennsylvania

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   Feb 6, 2010 · The Queen's English. Over at the blog of the Norman Lear Center, Leo Braudy makes a nice observation about the dialogue in The Queen, where Queen Elizabeth uses fulsome to describe praise that is merely abundant, rather than being oleaginous or smarmy. True, that usage is common enough among educated speakers, but was it a deliberate choice to ...

3. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu › nllLanguage Log » Fulsome use of the dictionary

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   Feb 9, 2009 · Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as "fulsome praise" is meant in sense 1b or in sense 4. But in the BBC's case, you can tell, so there is no ambiguity: sense 4 would give you a contradiction, and it isn't reasonable to think they wanted to contradict themselves, so obviously they meant one of the senses in 1.

4. www.grammarphobia.com › blog › 2014The Grammarphobia Blog: Fulsome and then some

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   Nov 3, 2014 · A: We discussed “fulsome” on the blog in 2007, but it’s probably time to take another look at this troublesome adjective. To begin at the beginning, the word “fulsome” meant simply “abundant” when it first appeared in writing back in 1250, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Over the centuries, it came to mean overdone ...

5. www.dailywritingtips.com › is-fulsome-aIs “fulsome” a complimentary word? - Daily Writing Tips

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   Mar 15, 2010 · It says : Although the earliest sense of fulsome was ‘abundant’, this is now regarded by many as incorrect; the correct meaning today is said to be ‘excessively flattering’. This gives rise to ambiguity: the possibility that while for one speaker fulsome praise will be a genuine compliment, for others it will be interpreted as an insult.

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6. www.merriam-webster.com › grammar › fulsomeIs Fulsome a Negative Word? - Merriam-Webster

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   The word has both positive and negative meanings, so context is key. Fulsome is a troublesome word. And it's also a word that represents the rare case in which dictionaries have made the word’s meaning more confusing rather than more clear. Fulsome seems like an emphatic way of saying “full” or “complete,” and indeed in its oldest use ...

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   Is 'fulsome praise' ambiguity?

   • But M-W cautions that the “chief danger for the user of fulsome is ambiguity,” and unless “the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as ‘fulsome praise’ is meant” in the sense of “abundant” or “excessive.”

   The Grammarphobia Blog: Fulsome and then some

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   What does fulsome praise mean?

   • It came to mean “obnoxiously full” rather than just full. To give fulsome praise now meant to give insincere or exaggerated praise. More recently, the word has gone full circle and become more widely used in its original sense : abundant without any negative connotation. People describe praise as “fulsome” and imply no criticism.

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   Is 'fulsome' a fancy way of saying 'copious' or 'abundant'?

   • There it is: the hypercorrecting belief that "fulsome" is a fancy way of saying "copious" or "abundant" when its primary meaning is actually "gross, offensive." Certainly this is a slippage of meaning that is in pretty common usage, but in the mouth of the Queen?

   Language Log: January 2007 Archives

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   Is “fulsome” an informal word?

   • Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) also lists the “abundant” sense of “fulsome” as standard while the Collins English Dictionary describes it as informal. Merriam-Webster’s says in a usage note that the original “abundant” sense of the word “has not only been revived but has spread in its application and continues to do so.”

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   Is “foulsome” a bad word?

   • In the 18th century, in fact, it was sometimes spelled “foulsome.” Nearly all of those negative senses, the OED says, are now considered obsolete. The dictionary says the adjective “fulsome” is “now chiefly used in reference to gross or excessive flattery, over-demonstrative affection, or the like.”

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   What does fulsome mean in literature?

   • And evidence shows that by the 19th century fulsome was established as a literary term chiefly expressing disapproval of excessive and obsequious praise and flattery—that is, exactly as Webster had defined it.

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8. www.csmonitor.com › The-Culture › In-a-WordShakespearean language: What does ‘fulsome’ praise mean ...

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   Dec 12, 2019 · This suffix signifies “characterized by a (specified) thing, quality, state, or action,” according to Merriam-Webster, and full means, well, “full.”. Fulsome, then, etymologically speaking ...