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cully

I. cully, n. slang or colloq. Now rare.
    (ˈkʌlɪ)
    [Orig. slang or rogues' cant, of uncertain origin.
    Connexion has been suggested with cullion or its Ital. cognate coglione ‘a noddie, a foole, a patch, a dolt; a cuglion, a gull, a meacocke’ (Florio). Leland thinks it of Gypsy origin, comparing Sp. Gypsy chulai man, Turkish Gypsy khulai gentleman.]
    1. One who is cheated or imposed upon (e.g. by a sharper, strumpet, etc.); a dupe, gull; one easily deceived or taken in; a silly fellow, simpleton. (Much in use in the 17th c.)

1664 Butler Hud. ii. ii. 781 Women, that.. Brought in..Their Husbands Cullies, and Sweet-hearts. 1687 Sedley Bellamira i. i, I'll..shew her I am not such a cully as she takes me for. a 1720 J. Hughes in Duncombe's Lett. (1773) III. App. xxxvii, The wit is always the cully of the heart. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lvi. 147 The French syren was baulked in her design upon her English cully. 1833 Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 89 Cullies, the easy cushion on which Knaves and Knavesses repose, have at all times existed. 1881 Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 133 The whimper of a cheated cully.


attrib. 1678 Butler Hud. iii. Heroic. Epist. 168 Why should you..B'allow'd to put all tricks upon Our Cully-Sex, and we use none? 1702 De Foe Reform. Manners i. 308 The Cully Merchant.

    2. A man, fellow; a companion, mate.

1676 Warn. for Housekeepers 5 If the cully nap us. 1861 Mayhew Lond. Lab. (ed. 2) III. 57 (Hoppe) The showman inside the frame says..‘Culley, how are you getting on?’ 1888 New York Mercury (Farmer, Americanisms), What's yer hurry, cully?

II. ˈcully, v.1 Obs. rare—1.
    [app. related to cull v.2: cf. culye.]
    = cull v.2

1576 Tyde Tarryeth no Man, Ione is pleasaunt, to kisse, and to cully.

III. cully, v.2 Obs.
    [f. cully n. Cf. It. coglionare, ‘to cosin, to cog, to foist, to deceiue’ (Florio).]
    trans. To make a fool of, deceive, cheat, take in.

1676 Life of Muggleton in Harl. Misc. I. 610 Having for some time being cullied out of his money. 1699 Pomfret Poems, Divine Attributes, Tricks to cully fools. 1702 Pope Wife of Bath 161 Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. 1768 Woman of Honour I. 150 Being..cullied by drabs whom their footmen might disdain.

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