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FOULSOME
Definition of FOULSOME
adjective
Characterised or marked by foulness or filth; filthy; wretched.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
A variant of fulsome, from Middle English fulsome (“arousing disgust, loathsome”), remodelled after foul. Equivalent to foul + -some. Cognate with Scots foulsome, fowsum.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle English
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
4th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
6.2%
of traced words share this origin (5,246)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Scots.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FOULSOME in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
Built from these letters
FOULSOME starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFLMOOSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Could you have found FOULSOME?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 158 - and most players walked straight past it.
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