fulla
English
Noun
fulla (plural fullas)
- (Australia, New Zealand) Man, especially one of indigenous decent; fellow.
- 2012, Gayle Kennedy, Me, Antman and Fleabag, →ISBN:
- While we was wanderin round the stalls tryin, in vain it turns out, ta find a food stall that sold tucker with meat in it, we came across a stall sellin didjeridoos, or yidakis as the fulla sellin em liked to call em.
- 2013, Patricia Grace, The Dream Sleepers, →ISBN:
- Pick me up later young fulla, ten past five.
- 2018, Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy, Money in the Morgue, →ISBN, page 242:
- 'Too many of our own fullas like that as well,' Brayling said darkly.
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Derived terms
Preposition
fulla
- (informall) Full of.
- 2011, Donald E Westlake, Why Me?, →ISBN:
- Both parts, fulla shit.”
- 2012, C.G. Gardiner, Melting Pot Blues, →ISBN, page 45:
- He's fulla . . . fulla crap.
- 2014, Ray Garton, Trailer Park Noir, →ISBN:
- Ted's always fulla good stories.
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Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan folha, from Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
Related terms
Further reading
- “fulla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Swedish
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