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Gull   /gəl/   Listen
Gull

noun
1.
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.  Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker.
2.
Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.  Synonyms: sea gull, seagull.
verb
(past & past part. gulled; pres. part. gulling)
1.
Make a fool or dupe of.  Synonyms: befool, fool.
2.
Fool or hoax.  Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in.  "You can't fool me!"



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"Gull" Quotes from Famous Books



... Impositions. First, He underboil'd his Wort to save its Consumption: Secondly, He boiled this Seed instead of the Hop; and Thirdly, He beat the Yeast in for some time to encrease the strength of the Drink; and all these in such a Legerdemain manner as gull'd and infatuated the ignorant Drinker to such a degree as not to suspect the Fraud, and that for these three Reasons: First, The underboil'd wort being of a more sweet taste than ordinary, was esteemed the Produce of a great allowance ...
— The London and Country Brewer • Anonymous

... sweetness of the spring morning was about them. On the heavily wooded shore the great evergreens towered darkly against the sun, but its beams fell with dazzling brightness upon the meadowy undulations of the lake. Above them they heard at times the wild cry of the soaring gull, or the apparently disembodied voice of some unseen bird. Behind them they left the beautiful stretch of Kempenfeldt Bay, gleaming in the sunshine, and now they slowly ascended the waters of Cook's Bay, called after the great circumnavigator, under ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam

... I crept down to the hut, and lay on my face among the heather and listened. Here and there a mumble of voices, now and then a subdued shout, apparently an order to be carried out by the mysterious light-bearers, broken occasionally by the shrill call of a gull, conveyed nothing to me that I could not see. I looked up at the hut. No, there was no one there, and the windows were not screened, because I could see the moonlight streaming through the far side. Yet, surely, the hut ...
— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux

... men. Still, she was not insensible to admiration, and was quite aware of these two young aborigines following in her wake as surely as a gull in that ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... Gudrun's face, as she recovered. She knew she was revealed. 'Don't they make the most fearful noise when they scream?' she cried, the high note in her voice, like a sea-gull's cry. ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence


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