fullen

From full + -en (verbal suffix).

fullen (third-person singular simple present fullens, present participle fullening, simple past and past participle fullened)

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become full
   • 1984, Womanspirit - Issue 39, page 11:

     That red day, the girl fades into the fullening form of maiden.

   • 2012, William Martin, Cape Cod:

     Then she took off the bodice that encased her upper body and the bum roll that fullened her hips.

   • 2016, Adina Araptai, Reaching: Whatever It Will Take:

     Under the tree where they are seated, normally called the lovers court because couples tend to frequent it, students start flocking the place fullening it.

fullen

1. third-person plural present indicative of fullar

From fulle (“fullness”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Compare Old English fullian (“to fill”).

• fulle, fullyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈfulən/

fullen (third-person singular simple present fulleth, present participle fullende, fullynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle fulled)

1. To fill; to make full.
2. (rare) To become full.

• English: full
• Scots: full, fou, foo

• “fullen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Middle French fouler, from Old French fouler, foler, from Late Latin fullare.

• full, fulle, fullyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈfulən/

fullen (third-person singular simple present fulleth, present participle fullende, fullynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle fulled) (Late Middle English)

1. To full or beat (cloth).

   Synonym: walken

2. (by extension, rare) To stomp or push.
3. (figurative, rare) To overcome or crush.

• fullere

• English: full

• “fullen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English fullian, fulwian, from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon), from Proto-West Germanic *wīhijan.

• folewen, follen, folowen, fully, fulwen, vollen, vullen
• fulhen, vulȝen (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈful(w)ən/, /ˈfuliən/, /ˈfuliu̯ən/, /ˈfulɔu̯ən/

fullen (third-person singular simple present fulleth, present participle fullende, fullynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle fulled)

1. To baptise or christen; to perform baptism.

   Synonyms: baptisen, cristenen

• fulloght

• English: full (obsolete)

• “fulwen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

fullen

1. alternative form of fellen

fullen

1. alternative form of fillen

From Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, see also Old Saxon fullian, Dutch vullen, Old English fyllan, Old Norse fylla, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fulljan).

fullen

1. to fill

• foll

• Middle High German: vüllen
  • Bavarian: fuin, fülln, fün
  • Cimbrian: vüllan, büllan (Mezzaselva)
  • German: füllen
  • Luxembourgish: fëllen