gull
see also: Gull
Pronunciation
Gull
Noun
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see also: Gull
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡʌl/
gull (plural gulls)
- A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
- French: goéland, mauve, mouette
- German: Möwe
- Italian: gabbiano
- Portuguese: gaivota
- Russian: ча́йка
- Spanish: gaviota
gull (plural gulls)
- (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3
- BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3
- One easily cheated; a dupe.
- (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
- (dupe) See also Thesaurus:dupe
- (swindler) See also Thesaurus:fraudster
gull (gulls, present participle gulling; past and past participle gulled)
- To deceive or cheat.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
- 1660, John Dryden, Astraea Redux
- The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
- c. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wallenstein
- I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
- […] speak your curses out
- Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
- A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
- An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
- (US, slang) To mislead.
- (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
- (to deceive) See also Thesaurus:deceive
- Russian: обма́нывать
Gull
Noun
gull (plural gulls)
- (soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.
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