fulsome vs sibilant

fulsome

adj
  • Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive. 

  • Marked by fullness; abundant, copious. 

  • Fully developed; mature. 

  • Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity). 

sibilant

adj
  • Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack. 

noun
  • A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack. 

How often have the words fulsome and sibilant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )