Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fulsome"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew
fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding.
2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or
grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from
excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves
will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper.
3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
[Obs.] ``Fulsome ewes.'' --Shak. -- {Ful"some*ly}, adv. --
{Ful"some*ness}, n. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fulsome
adj : unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome
introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent";
"oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the
unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: {buttery}, {oily}, {oleaginous},
{smarmy}, {unctuous}]
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