cully
Americannoun
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cullies
plural
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Archaic. a dupe.
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Slang. fellow; companion.
verb (used with object)
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cully
First recorded in 1655–65; perhaps shortening of cullion
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Well, methinks now you have had a hard bargain on't: You have lost your cully, Sir Timorous, and your friend, Burr, and all to get a poor beating.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Sir Max Beerbohm
Call me a fool if you like, cully, but it was three or four year before I got the idee that there was anythink funny about Elbert.
From Living Alone by Stella Benson
Colonel S. 'Sdeath, madam! what is there in me that looks like a cully?
From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by George Farquhar
Yet surely, although Shaftesbury was ridiculous for aiming at gallantry, from which his age and personal infirmity should have deterred him, Dryden would never have drawn the witty, artful politician, as a silly, henpecked cully.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
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 Francis Lynde
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 Stuart Travis
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 Montague Summers
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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