Sc. Also 5–6 fulye, 8 foulyie, 9 foulzie, fuilzie. [app. f. next vb.; the primary sense appears to be ‘what is trampled underfoot.’ Cf. FULLAGE.
The prevailing spelling in official documents and newspapers is fulzie..]
1. The sweepings or refuse of the streets.
1538. Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844), 154. Assis nor fulze.
1692. Act Sederunt, 4 Aug. The muck and fulzie of the towne.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 174. When towns’ bodies, leevin in shops and cellars, and garrets and common stairs, and lanes and streets that, wi’ a’ their fine gas lamp-posts, are pestilential wi’ filth and foulzie.
1833. Act 3 & 4 Will. IV., c. 46 § 111. Scavengers … to remove the dung or fuilzie thereof.
1863. Daily Rev., 22 Oct. They received about £7000 for the fulzie of the town.
2. Manure.
1492. Acta Dom. Conc., 289/2. Þe tatht & fulye of þe said nolt & scheip.
1721. J. Kelly, Scot. Prov., 308–9. The Master’s Foot is the best Foulzie. Two Philosophers asking mutual Questions to puzzle each other, the one asked what was the best Thing to make a Horse fat? was answered The Master’s Eye: The other ask’d, what was the best gooding for Ground? and was answered, The Master’s Foot. Both these Answers became, after, Proverbs; signifying that the Care and Concern of a Man will make his Business prosper.
3. Comb.: fulyie-man, a scavenger.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 197. A gin-shower aneuch to sicken a fulzie-man.
