Gull

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  • noun. A person who is easily tricked or cheated; a dupe.
  • transitive verb. To deceive or cheat.
  • noun. Any of various chiefly coastal seabirds of the family Laridae, having long wings, webbed feet, a thick, slightly hooked beak, and usually gray and white plumage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A channel for water; also, a stream.
  • noun. A long-winged, web-footed bird of the subfamily Larinæ, family Laridæ, and order Longipennes.
  • noun. Some sea-bird resembling a gull, as a skua or jäger, a tern or sea-swallow, a booby or gannet, etc.
  • noun. The young of the herring-gull, Larus argentatus, and of sundry related species, when the plumage is mostly gray.
  • noun. The white-winged gull, Larus leucopterus. Both have been called Larus islandicus.
  • To deceive; cheat; mislead by deception; trick; defraud.
  • Synonyms To dupe, cozen, beguile, impose upon.
  • noun. An unfledged bird; a nestling.
  • noun. A gosling.
  • noun. A large trout.
  • noun. Compare gullfish.
  • noun. The bloom of the willow in the spring.
  • noun. A simpleton; a fool; a dupe; one easily cheated.
  • noun. A cheating or cheat; a trick; fraud.
  • noun. undefined
  • To sweep away by the force of running water: same as gully.
  • To swallow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
  • noun. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
  • noun. One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • noun. One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.
  • noun. the jager; -- also applied to certain species of terns.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  • noun. A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • noun. One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • verb. To deceive or cheat
  • verb. To mislead
  • verb. To trick and defraud
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
  • verb. fool or hoax
  • noun. mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
  • verb. make a fool or dupe of
  • Word Usage
    "BESIDES BEING the name of an aquatic bird, the word gull is also a verb that means “to deceive or cheat” according to the American Heritage College Dictionary."
    Form
    gulled  gulling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cozen  deceive  delude  dupe  lead on  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hull  Mull  Shull  crull  cul  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    albatross  buzzard  crane  curlew  dove  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    babe  bamboozle  beat  befool  beguile  
    verb-form
    gulled  gulling  gulls