ˈfull-ˈgrown
[f. full adv. + grown.]
Fully grown; having attained full size or maturity.
| 1667 Milton P.L. vii. 456 Innumerous living Creatures..Limb'd and full grown. 1724 De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 30 Wickedness presented itself full-grown. 1767 Hunter in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 43 Fig. II. The same view of the same bone in a full-grown Elephant. 1859 Darwin Orig. Spec. iii. (1873) 52 In a state of nature almost every full-grown plant annually produces seed. 1871 Blackie Four Phases i. 151 He had two sons, one full-grown. |
| transf. 1856 Stanley Sinai & Pal. x. (1858) 374 Four springs pour their almost full-grown rivers through the plain. |
Hence
full-ˈgrowner colloq. or
slang, a full-grown person.
| 1867 P. Fitzgerald 75 Brooke St. III. 251 A full growner: no ‘Miss’ at all in the case. |