fulla
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Corruption of fellow, 1970s.
Noun
[edit]fulla (plural fullas)
- (Australia, New Zealand) Man, especially one of indigenous descent.
- Synonym: 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Preposition
[edit]fulla
Further reading
[edit]- “fulla”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Catalan
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Compare Occitan fuèlha (Old Occitan folha), French feuille, Spanish hoja.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fulla f (plural fulles)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “fulla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fulla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fulla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fulla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]fulla
- inflection of fullar:
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fulla
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fulla
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