3 entries under this word
v. t. [imp. & p. p. GULLED; p. pr. & vb. n. GULLING.] [O. Sw. gylla, to deceive, D. kullen; O. Fr. guiller, guiler, to deceive. Cf. GUILE, GULL, a sea-fowl, and DUPE.] To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud.
The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden.
I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.
n. 1. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak. 2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak.
n. [Corn. gullun, W. gwylan. Cf. supra.] (Ornith.) A web-footed sea-fowl, of the genus Larus, with long, narrow wings and with a straight beak hooked at the tip. The common gull is the Larus zonorhynchus.
Great black-backed Gull.
☞ Why the word “gull” should be employed to express stupidity, I can not at all comprehend; for the gulls are very knowing birds indeed, and difficult to be deceived. J. G. Wood.
