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.
© Webster 1913.