Full of guts, phr. (colloquial).—Full of vigour; excellently inspired and done: as a picture, a novel, and so forth. See Guts.
Full of beans, see Beans.
Full of bread, see Bread.
Fuller’s Earth, subs. phr. (old).—Gin. For synonyms, see Satin.
1821. Real Life in London, i., 394. The swell covies and out-and-outers find nothing so refreshing, after a night’s spree, when the victualling office is out of order, as a little fuller’s earth, or dose of Daffy’s.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, iii., 3. Bring me de kwarten of de fuller’s earth.
Fullied. To be fullied, verb. phr. (thieves’).—To be committed for trial. [From the newspaper expression, ‘Fully committed.’] Fr., être mis sur la planche au pain.
1851–61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, Vol. iii., p. 397. He got acquitted for that there note after he had me ‘pinched’ (arrested). I got fullied (fully committed).
1879. Horsley, ‘Autobiography of a Thief,’ in Macmillan’s Magazine, xl., 506. I … was then fullied and got this stretch and a half.
1889. Answers, 13 April, p. 313. At the House of Detention I often noticed such announcements as ‘Jack from Bradford fullied for smashing, and expects seven stretch,’ i.e., fully committed for trial for passing bad money, and expects seven years’ penal servitude.