also fulltime, 1895; full-timer is attested from 1855, in reference to students; see full (adj.) + time (n.).

of flower blossoms, "fully open," 1640s, from full (adj.) + blown "that has blossomed," from Old English geblowenne, past participle of blow (v.2) "to bloom." Figuratively "complete, fully developed" from 1650s. Full-blown also was used 17c.-18c. in reference to cheeks, sails, bladders, "fully distended" (by or as if by wind), in this case from blow (v.1), and the figurative sense might also be from or influenced by these.

1852 of knights, 1861, of warships, American English, from iron (n.) + clad. Figuratively, of contracts, etc., "very rigid or strict, allowing no evasion or escape," from 1884. As a noun meaning "iron-clad ship," it is attested from 1862.

mid-14c., tatrid, "clad in slashed garments," from tatter (n.) or its Scandinavian source.

"meant to titillate men, featuring attractive women scantily clad or nude," by 1936; see girl + -y (2). Girlie (n.) was used by 1921 in a slang sense of "bimbo, floozie."

Old English claðas "cloths; garments for the body," originally the plural of clað "cloth" (see cloth), which, in 19c., after the sense of "article of clothing" had mostly faded from it, acquired a new plural form, cloths, to distinguish it from this word. Clothes-hanger attested from 1860.

also full-back, 1882 in sports, from full (adj.) + back (n.).

1915, "opium," from Cantonese yao-kao "opium," literally "drug-sap;" used as such by Raymond Chandler, etc.; by 1950s the meaning had expanded to "pictures of nude or scantily clad women," hence gow job "flashy girl," which in teenager slang came to also mean "hot rod."

also brim-full, "full to the top," 1520s, from brim (n.) + -ful.