See foulsome on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "fulsome", "t": "arousing disgust, loathsome" }, "expansion": "Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "foul", "3": "-some", "pos": "adjective" }, "expansion": "foul + -some", "name": "suf" }, { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "foulsome" }, "expansion": "Scots foulsome", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "A variant of fulsome, from Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”), remodelled after foul. Equivalent to foul + -some. Cognate with Scots foulsome, fowsum.", "forms": [ { "form": "more foulsome", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most foulsome", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "foulsome (comparative more foulsome, superlative most foulsome)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English adjectives suffixed with -some", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 2 entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1983, Ben Bova, Gremlins Go Home:", "text": "“Hah. And a good thing it is that you have. It's almost time for us to leave this foulsome planet, and we'll be needing all the help we can muster.” “It's not a foulsome planet!” Rita snapped.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1998, A. Jesuraja, Glimpses of the Divine:", "text": "Manure thus becomes a symbol of the alchemy effected by divine grace, which is capable of transforming something odious and foulsome into something beautiful and glorious, thus making us meritorious of heavenly reward: [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, Diana Preston, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind:", "text": "This made for an even more “foulsome, suffocating abode.” Men lay in swaying canvas hammocks, or packed side by side on the floor, scratching at omnipresent lice and breathing fetid air reeking of unwashed bodies and rank breath.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Paul Kockelman, Language, Culture, and Mind:", "text": "In particular, speakers most elaborately characterized the interjection chix, which indexes foulsome things, the interjection uyaluy, which indexes dangerous things, and the interjection ay, when it indexes painful events.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2011, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English:", "text": "The lead seals confining the liquefying body of the former king were not secure and foulsome black ooze seeped from one edge.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Characterised or marked by foulness or filth; filthy; (by extension) wretched." ], "id": "en-foulsome-en-adj-ZIverrix", "links": [ [ "foulness", "foulness" ], [ "filth", "filth" ], [ "filthy", "filthy" ], [ "wretched", "wretched" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈfaʊlsəm/" } ], "word": "foulsome" } { "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "noun" }, "expansion": "foulsome", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "fulsom" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 2 entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of fulsom" ], "id": "en-foulsome-enm-noun-5HVR3Y-e", "links": [ [ "fulsom", "fulsom#Middle_English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "foulsome" }
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "fulsome", "t": "arousing disgust, loathsome" }, "expansion": "Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "foul", "3": "-some", "pos": "adjective" }, "expansion": "foul + -some", "name": "suf" }, { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "foulsome" }, "expansion": "Scots foulsome", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "A variant of fulsome, from Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”), remodelled after foul. Equivalent to foul + -some. Cognate with Scots foulsome, fowsum.", "forms": [ { "form": "more foulsome", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most foulsome", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "foulsome (comparative more foulsome, superlative most foulsome)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English adjectives suffixed with -some", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms derived from Middle English", "English terms inherited from Middle English", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 2 entries", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1983, Ben Bova, Gremlins Go Home:", "text": "“Hah. And a good thing it is that you have. It's almost time for us to leave this foulsome planet, and we'll be needing all the help we can muster.” “It's not a foulsome planet!” Rita snapped.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1998, A. Jesuraja, Glimpses of the Divine:", "text": "Manure thus becomes a symbol of the alchemy effected by divine grace, which is capable of transforming something odious and foulsome into something beautiful and glorious, thus making us meritorious of heavenly reward: [...]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, Diana Preston, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind:", "text": "This made for an even more “foulsome, suffocating abode.” Men lay in swaying canvas hammocks, or packed side by side on the floor, scratching at omnipresent lice and breathing fetid air reeking of unwashed bodies and rank breath.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2010, Paul Kockelman, Language, Culture, and Mind:", "text": "In particular, speakers most elaborately characterized the interjection chix, which indexes foulsome things, the interjection uyaluy, which indexes dangerous things, and the interjection ay, when it indexes painful events.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2011, Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English:", "text": "The lead seals confining the liquefying body of the former king were not secure and foulsome black ooze seeped from one edge.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Characterised or marked by foulness or filth; filthy; (by extension) wretched." ], "links": [ [ "foulness", "foulness" ], [ "filth", "filth" ], [ "filthy", "filthy" ], [ "wretched", "wretched" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈfaʊlsəm/" } ], "word": "foulsome" } { "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "noun" }, "expansion": "foulsome", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "fulsom" } ], "categories": [ "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English lemmas", "Middle English nouns", "Pages with 2 entries", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of fulsom" ], "links": [ [ "fulsom", "fulsom#Middle_English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "foulsome" }
Download raw JSONL data for foulsome meaning in All languages combined (3.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.