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gull
n. common English name for a sea-bird.The Australian species are – – Long-billed Gull – – Larus lon...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
1. A cheat; a fraud; a trick.
2. A stupid animal; one easily cheated.--Johnson.
I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it.--Shakspeare.
That paltry story is untrue,
And forged to cheat such gulls as you.--Hudibras.
The author of the "Perils of Pearl Street," in describing one of the swindling auction stores in New York, says:
The auctioneer and Peter Funk were ready to burst with laughter at the prodigious gull they had made of the poor countryman.--P. 53.
3) TO GULL
To trick; to cheat; to deceive.--Johnson. Seldom employed except in familiar conversation.
Yet love these sorc'ries did remove, and move
Thee to gull thine own mother for my love.--Dame.
The Roman people were grossly gulled twice or thrice over, and as often enslaved in one century, and under the same pretence of reformation.--Dryden.
You colony chaps are gulled from year to year.--Sam Slick.
There is no people like unto this people [the Americans], so great yet so little, so shrewd yet so easily gulled, so Christian yet so easily led away from the old standards of truth.--N. Y. Com. Adv. Feb. 24, 1848.
n. common English name for a sea-bird.The Australian species are – – Long-billed Gull – – Larus lon...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris