fulham

See also: Fulham

English

So called because loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, originally in Middlesex, England.

fulham (plural fulhams)

(archaic, UK, slang) Alternative form of fullam (“loaded die”)
- 1822, Scott, Sir Walter, The Fortunes of Nigel:
  “Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!”
(archaic, UK, colloquial, by extension) Alternative form of fullam (“sham”)
- c. 1660–1680, Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, part II, canto 1:
  As one cut out to pass your tricks on, / With fulhams of poetic fiction