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

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Etymology

Origin of cully

First recorded in 1655–65; perhaps shortening of cullion

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Example Sentences

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cully cullies cullied

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 Alexander F. Chamberlain

I have been your cully above these seven years; but, at last, my eyes are opened to your witchcraft; and indulgent heaven has taken care 087 of my preservation.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott

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

Thus, when by rooks a lord is plied,   Some cully often wins a bet, By venturing on the cheating side,   Though not into the secret let.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning

Cull, a dupe; Cull′yism, state of being a cully.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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

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

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

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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