cully
Americannoun
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Archaic. a dupe.
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Slang. fellow; companion.
verb (used with object)
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of cully
First recorded in 1655–65; perhaps shortening of cullion
Example Sentences
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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.
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
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
Cull, a dupe; Cull′yism, state of being a cully.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"Now then, cully, just you be careful 'ow you dust that there 'orse; 'e's a delicate piece, 'e is, and 'e shows the slightest scratch."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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