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{
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fullam",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fullams",
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"plural"
]
}
],
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],
"hyphenation": [
"ful‧lam"
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 3:",
"text": "Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds / And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, act 3, scene 1:",
"text": "Who! he serve? 'sblood, he keeps high men, and low-men, he! he has a fair living at Fullam.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number."
],
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"english": "loaded for high number",
"sense": "false die",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
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},
{
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"english": "loaded for low number",
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"plural"
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{
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"die",
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"loaded",
"loaded"
],
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"unevenly",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang) A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number."
],
"synonyms": [
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"sense": "false die",
"word": "gourd"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"sense": "false die",
"word": "langret"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"sense": "false die",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "loaded dice"
}
],
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"UK",
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
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{
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],
"glosses": [
"A sham; a hoax; a make-believe."
],
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"sham",
"sham"
],
[
"hoax",
"hoax"
],
[
"make-believe",
"make-believe"
]
],
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"(archaic, UK, colloquial, by extension) A sham; a hoax; a make-believe."
],
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"word": "deception"
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"UK",
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}
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"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfʊləm/"
},
{
"homophone": "Fulham"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊləm"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "fullan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "fullom"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "fulham"
}
],
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}
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"English lemmas",
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"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʊləm",
"Rhymes:English/ʊləm/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fullam",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fullams",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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],
"hyphenation": [
"ful‧lam"
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"english": "loaded for high number",
"sense": "false die",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "highmen"
},
{
"english": "loaded for low number",
"sense": "false die",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
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{
"english": "loaded for high number",
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"word": "uphills"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"British English",
"English slang",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 1, scene 3:",
"text": "Let vultures gripe thy guts! For gourd and fullam holds / And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, act 3, scene 1:",
"text": "Who! he serve? 'sblood, he keeps high men, and low-men, he! he has a fair living at Fullam.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number."
],
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"false",
"false"
],
[
"die",
"die"
],
[
"loaded",
"loaded"
],
[
"unevenly",
"unevenly"
],
[
"weighted",
"weighted"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK, slang) A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A sham; a hoax; a make-believe."
],
"links": [
[
"sham",
"sham"
],
[
"hoax",
"hoax"
],
[
"make-believe",
"make-believe"
]
],
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"(archaic, UK, colloquial, by extension) A sham; a hoax; a make-believe."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"broadly",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfʊləm/"
},
{
"homophone": "Fulham"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊləm"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "false die",
"word": "gourd"
},
{
"sense": "false die",
"word": "langret"
},
{
"sense": "false die",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "loaded dice"
},
{
"sense": "sham",
"word": "deception"
},
{
"word": "fullan"
},
{
"word": "fullom"
},
{
"word": "fulham"
}
],
"word": "fullam"
}
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