cully
Americannoun
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Archaic. a dupe.
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Slang. fellow; companion.
verb (used with object)
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of cully
First recorded in 1655–65; perhaps shortening of cullion
Example Sentences
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I s'pose it was part my fault, cully.
From Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
But the single word which survives in the family recollection is a dissyllable, the word for milk, which was cully.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.
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 Saintsbury, George
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
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