Link Centre Dictionary

gull

UK/ˈɡʌl/ US/ɡʊl/ uncommon obsolete slang us
verb (2) noun (2)

verb

1.

make a fool or dupe of

Synonyms
2.

fool or hoax

  • “The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone”
  • “You can”
Synonyms

noun

1.
2.

Origin

Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish golan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *weilannā (“seagull”). Cognate with Old Irish foílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).

Phrases

  • as the gull flies
  • Audouin's gull
  • black-backed gull
  • black-headed gull
  • Bonaparte's gull
  • Cape gull
  • Caspian gull
  • common gull
  • gullible → gullibility

Related words

Word family

Broader terms

Narrower terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.