A fish that has been completely filled or stuffed, typically used in historical culinary contexts.
From Middle English 'ge-' (prefix meaning completely) combined with 'full' and 'fish', reflecting Old English compound formation practices for describing prepared foods.
This word is a delightful fossil from medieval cookery—it appears in ancient English recipe manuscripts and shows how cooks used 'ge-' prefixes to describe their elaborate food preparations, much like how we might say 'stuffed' today.
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