fulla

Noun

fulla (plural fullas)

1. (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.

Preposition

fulla

1. (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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfu.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfu.ʎa]

• Audio:

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Noun

fulla f (plural fulles)

1. leaf
2. sheet, thin plate
3. blade
4. (mathematics) sheet

   hiperboloide d'una fulla ― one-sheet hyperboloid

Further reading

• “fulla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fulla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “fulla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fulla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Verb

fulla

1. inflection of fullar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative