bleeding cully

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• Bleeding

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Bleed>>. II. Bleeding ·adj Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, ·etc....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cully

  ·noun To trick, cheat, or impose on; to <<Deceive>>. II. Cully ·noun A person easily deceived, tric...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cully

  A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bleeding new

  A metaphor borrowed from fish, which will not bleed when stale. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bleeding-heart

  n. another name for the kennedya (q.v.). 1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53: «The trailing sc...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dark cully

  A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flogging cully

  A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• keeping cully

  One who keeps a mistress, as he supposes, for his own use, but really for that of the public. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Bleeding Heart Yard

  In Fetter Lane (Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bleeding the monkey

  The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess s...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• head cully of the pass

  The top tilter of that gang throughout the whole army, who demands and receives contribution from al...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose