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

The cully freely blotted the scrip, and tipt me forty hogs; the man freely signed the bond, and gave me forty shillings.—Scrip is also a Change Alley phrase for the last loan or subscription.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

An expression among impures, signifying the cully who pays, in opposition to a flash man.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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 Henry Pearson Gratton

Say, cully, reach under my pillow and find a little book there; it’s a little Testament that my dear old mother gave me; read a little for me, will you please?

From Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer A Drummer Boy from Maine by George T. Ulmer

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 Arthur L. Hayward

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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