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English
Etymology 1
Corruption of fellow, 1970s.
Noun
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
Etymology 2
Preposition
fulla
- (informal) 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 1
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
Noun
fulla f (plural fulles)
- leaf
- sheet, thin plate
- blade
- (mathematics) sheet
- hiperboloide d'una fulla ― one-sheet hyperboloid
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Etymology 2
Verb
fulla
- inflection of fullar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Swedish
Adjective
fulla
- inflection of full:
- definite singular
- plural