Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fool or dupe.
- transitive verb To fool; cheat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fellow; a “cove”; especially, a verdant fellow who is easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on, as by a sharper, jilt, or strumpet; a mean dupe.
- To deceive; trick, cheat, or impose upon; jilt; gull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.
- noun A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a
dupe , agullible person. - noun slang A
companion . - verb To trick, to
impose on, todupe .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"cully" too cruel a reproach to the men, for their abused weakness for us.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) John Cleland 1749
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Given the uproar at that time, Mr. Stimson had to resign as was described in the WSJ at cully-stimson-resigns.
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Given the uproar at that time, Mr. Stimson had to resign as was described in the WSJ at cully-stimson-resigns .
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And thank you, TVaddict, for bringing our attention to this! cully
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April 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm and this is going to have cully hamner sp? question back-ups?
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Why are the cul de…cully sac…teh dead end hidden cornerses marked “Good playce to eat pinny gigs” or “good place to eet skwirrlols”?
No…..eye iz sik - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, yarrr cully, and any squint what is caught not talking like a pirate will have his filthy guts torn from his wreeetched grog pot and laced round his useless head.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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Nay, art thou not the cully of that still viler Joseph Leman, who serves himself as much by thy money, as he does thee by the double part he acts by thy direction? —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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English cully, who was so easily disheartened, and hung his ears in manifest despondence, rather than rather than run the risk of making a voyage that should be altogether unprofitable, resolved to practise her charms upon the Dutch merchant.
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Charles, whom they knew, and from the earliness of my escape, and their perfect ignorance of his ever having so much as seen me, not having the least suspicion of his being accessory to my flight, they were, in their way, making up to him; and as to his companion, they took him probably for a fresh cully.
yarb commented on the word cully
Suppose, for instance, that an actor gets drunk and makes a fool of himself; or an actress gets hold of a rich cully and makes a fool of him! The green-room is sure to ring with all the particulars, and a few more than are true.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
September 19, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word cully
(noun) - (1) One that maintains a mistress, and parts with money generously to her.
--B.E.'s Dictionary of the Canting Crew, 1699
(2) A companion, mate. One who is cheated or imposed upon by a sharper, strumpet, etc. One easily deceived. Much in use in the 17th century . . . Compare Italian coglionare, "to foist, to deceive."
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
January 14, 2018
yarb commented on the word cully
"Meanwhile the French siren, balked in her design upon her English cully, who was so easily disheartened, and hung his ears in manifest despondence, rather than run the risk of making a voyage that should be altogether unprofitable, resolved to practise her charms upon the Dutch merchant."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
May 2, 2022