fulling
noun, verb
fulling is a noun meaning “Baptism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-L-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fulling is fullings.
What does fulling mean?
noun
- 1
Baptism.
- 2
The process of cloth being fulled.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of full
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fulling
- fullings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fulling?
Fulling appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fulling come from?
From Middle English fulling, fullynge, from fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), equivalent to full + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).