fullmade
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""With a fullmade machine we concern ourselves, he says, only with what it can do, but this with this growing machine it is important that we have some control over its construction, and the poet's, who see something of man's nature, can best help as by imparting to us their gift of sight.""
- "He must be "roundly turned" — "full-made" as the dealers say — with good length, standing over plenty of ground, and with a smoothly-flowing top line from his well-formed, well-set ears to his high- carried tail; well sprung in his ribs [...]"
- "He exemplifies the close, full-made form and high action of the show type, but has unusual bone and muscular development in his comparatively short legs."
- "And, you know, I am tall and fullmade, and he was but a little, wiry, short old man."
Etymology
From Middle English fulmade, volmad (“accomplished, perfected”), past participle of fulmaken (“to accomplish, perfect”), equivalent to full + made. Cognate with Dutch volmaakt (“perfect, complete”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: fulmade