fullproof

[dragonlady7]

This morning within the space of about 6 entries on my f-list the word "fullproof" or "full-proof" occurred twice in contexts where I had been expecting "foolproof".
Seeing it once, in an essay by an author from a website that despite being run by authors, often publishes essays with typos, I was not particularly surprised and kept reading without thinking much of it. But seeing it a second time in a completely different place by a person with whose writing I am slightly more familiar and (thus) generally more impressed has now made me wonder whether there is such a word in accepted usage and I simply hadn't encountered it until now.
Google seems to suggest it's mathematical, but many of the results are people debating, like me, whether it's really a phrase.

Is it? I'd never seen it before, but I am often caught completely by surprise by words or usages that you'd think I'd've encountered by now, but hadn't.
And I've been known to make up words. I'm not allowed to play Scrabble anymore since the "frisible" incident.

Comments

[theperfumer.livejournal.com]

Nope. It's a common error, and I am louse-ridden with such common errors! :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

How odd, though, to see it twice in such quick succession. I'm still pretty ready to be persuaded that it's a legitimate usage. Or, maybe it's today's Word of the Day and I'll just use it all day long.

Actually it just means I should drink some full-proof whiskey (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/glossary.html) this evening. It's a theme day that involves Scotch! Oh my week is so much brighter now.

I've been reading your entries for a couple of months now and have got you mentally filed as thoroughly-competent-but-occasionally-mistypes, which is (incidentally) my category too when it comes to blogging, so it was completely plausible. The other essayist, I don't know from Eve so I couldn't judge; it was the only error in the essay, but it wasn't a long essay. And it kills me to admit this but since it was about romance novels I was a lot more likely to believe that she wouldn't catch a typo. (For some reason I have a lot of authors on my f-list and half are SF/fantasy and the other half romance, and I don't want to ascribe to stereotypes, but the romance ones make a lot more typos and have a slightly less nuanced and deliberate approach to language. This of course is not universal but it is a notable trend.)

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

If you google "frisible," this entry is the first thing that comes up! :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Already?
Jesus!

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

You're famous.
What did you think frisible meant?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I actually was thinking of the words friable and fusible somewhat conjoinedly. I then got confused with risible. I knew risible was distinct. But I thought frisible referred to something that crumbled easily.

Perhaps "frisible" really refers to things that crumble easily in a laughable manner. Or, alternately, things that crumble easily but also are easily stuck together.