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gully-gully|ˈgʌlɪgʌlɪ|
Also gulli-gulli.
[Of unknown origin.]
A conjuror's catch-word. So gully-gully man, in Egypt, esp. at Port Said, a conjuror who works with live chickens.
1930E. Waugh Labels iii. 69 [At Port Said] a conjuror came and did tricks for us with live chickens. These are called ‘gully-gully men’ because of their chatter. They are the worst possible conjurors but excellent comedians. They squat on the ground, making odd clucking noises in their throats and smiling happily, and proceed with the minimum of deception to pop things in and out of their voluminous sleeves. Ibid. 70 A little Arab girl..who had taught herself to imitate them perfectly..used not to bother about the conjuring at all, but would scramble from table to table in the cafés, saying, ‘Gully-gully’, and taking a chicken in and out of a little cloth bag. 1955A. Ross Australia 55 24 The decks were deserted, the gulli-gulli men departed. 1960Spectator 15 July 95/3 The ‘gully-gully’ men ply between Port Said and Suez, boarding the ships and giving performances on deck at advertised times. 1962D. J. Enright Addictions iv. 67 (title) I was a gulli-gulli man's chicken. 1969J. R. D. Tata in Assoc. Chambers Comm. & Industr. India Golden Jubilee Commem. Vol. 74 A belief that all you had to do to create..large industry was to produce the money, order the plant, build the sheds, advertise for posts and ‘presto, gully-gully!’, you had production and sales following automatically. |