Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a cullion; mean; base.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mean; base.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
mean ;base
Etymologies
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cullion + -ly
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Examples
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Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I'll make a sop o 'the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.
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“Pshaw, man!” said Lord Dalgarno, “I spoke but according to the trick of the time; besides, a man must set a piece or two sometimes, or he would be held a cullionly niggard.
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Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.
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"Pshaw, man!" said Lord Dalgarno, "I spoke but according to the trick of the time; besides, a man must set a piece or two sometimes, or he would be held a cullionly niggard.
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