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▪ 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.)
1664Butler Hud. ii. ii. 781 Women, that.. Brought in..Their Husbands Cullies, and Sweet-hearts. 1687Sedley Bellamira i. i, I'll..shew her I am not such a cully as she takes me for. a1720J. Hughes in Duncombe's Lett. (1773) III. App. xxxvii, The wit is always the cully of the heart. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lvi. 147 The French syren was baulked in her design upon her English cully. 1833Carlyle Misc. (1872) V. 89 Cullies, the easy cushion on which Knaves and Knavesses repose, have at all times existed. 1881Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 133 The whimper of a cheated cully.
attrib.1678Butler Hud. iii. Heroic. Epist. 168 Why should you..B'allow'd to put all tricks upon Our Cully-Sex, and we use none? 1702De Foe Reform. Manners i. 308 The Cully Merchant.
2. A man, fellow; a companion, mate.
1676Warn. for Housekeepers 5 If the cully nap us. 1861Mayhew Lond. Lab. (ed. 2) III. 57 (Hoppe) The showman inside the frame says..‘Culley, how are you getting on?’ 1888New 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
1576Tyde 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.
1676Life of Muggleton in Harl. Misc. I. 610 Having for some time being cullied out of his money. 1699Pomfret Poems, Divine Attributes, Tricks to cully fools. 1702Pope Wife of Bath 161 Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race. 1768Woman of Honour I. 150 Being..cullied by drabs whom their footmen might disdain. |