cully

American  

[kuhl-ee] / ˈkʌl i /

noun

• cullies
  plural

1. Archaic. a dupe.

2. Slang. fellow; companion.

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verb (used with object)

cullied, cullying

1. to trick; cheat; dupe.

cully British  

/ ˈkʌlɪ /

noun

1. slang pal; mate

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cullies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cully

First recorded in 1655–65; perhaps shortening of cullion

Example Sentences

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cully cullies cullied

Under cully, to which Mr. Wedgwood refers, he gives another etymology of coglione, and, we think, a wrong one.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various

Upon which our cully of a robber, thinking to save so much money, paid it him down, and madam seemed to be highly pleased.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.

Nothing is more thrilling, thought he, than to be treated as a cully by the person you hold in the hollow of your hand.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Thus, "Hi, cully, what's on?" to which comes in answer, "Hunki dori."

From As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home by Gratton, Henry Pearson

And here I could give a very diverting history of a patent-monger whose cully was nobody but myself, but I refer it to another occasion.

From An Essay Upon Projects by Defoe, Daniel

For a change we meant to rum-pad a baronet, and I flatter myself we made as dashing a trio of cullies as any gentlemen of the heath among them all.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

There's a dozen 'r more of the cullies down-along got their notice to fade away when I got mine, and they'd jump at th' chance to get back at the bosses.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

A very Rascal, Sir, and a most dangerous Fellow—he cullies in your Prentices and Cashiers to play—which ruins so many o'th' young Fry i'th' City— Sir Cau.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Lord! with what monstrous lies and senseless shams Have we been cullied all along at Sam's!

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron