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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?l′l?)

Noun.

;

pl.

Cullies

(-l[GREEK]z)

[Abbrev. fr.

cullion

A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull.

I have learned that . . . I am not the first

cully

whom she has passed upon for a countess.

Addison.

Verb.

[See

Noun.

, and cf. D.

kullen

to cheat, gull.]

To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive.

“Tricks to cully fools.”

Pomfret.

Noun.

[See the Verb.] A person who is meanly deceived, tricked or imposed on, as by a sharper, jilt, or strumpet; a mean dupe.

Verb.

To deceive; to trick, cheat or impose on; to jilt.