gulleryn.1
/ˈɡʌləri/ Obsolete or archaic.
Deception, trickery, imposture; an instance of this, a deception, trick.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun]
falsec1000
fraudc1330
barrat1340
faitery1377
defraudc1450
trumpery1481
covin1487
defraudationc1503
knavery1528
conveyance1531
imposture1537
defrauding1548
cozenage1583
impostry1585
catch-dolt1592
gullery1598
coggery1602
gullage1607
charlatism1611
impostury1615
quacksalvery1617
mountebankery1618
imposition1632
imposturisma1634
blaflum1637
charlatanry1638
defraudment1645
mountebankism1649
impostorya1652
impostorism1652
imposturage1654
impostery1656
mountebank1657
imposing1659
quackery1675
quackism1722
empiricism1774
cross1802
charlatanism1804
practitionery1818
cozenry1829
humbuggery1831
trick1833
thimble-shift1834
thimble-shifting1834
thimbleriggery1841
humbuggism1842
quackhood1843
quacksalverism1864
razzle-dazzle1928
spivery1948
shuck1958
shucking and jiving1969
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of
braida1000
fraudc1374
mock1523
brogue1537
flim-flamc1538
imposture1548
lie1560
cozening1576
smoke-hole1580
gullery1598
gull1600
cog1602
coggery1602
fraudulency1630
imposition1632
cheat1649
fourbery1650
prestige1656
sham1677
crimp1684
bite1711
humbug1750
swindle1778
hookum-snivey1781
shim-sham1797
gag1805
intake1808
racket1819
wooden nutmeg1822
sell1838
caper1851
skin game1879
Kaffir bargain1899
swizzle1913
swizz1915
put-on1919
ready-up1924
rort1926
jack-up1945
1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A3v Such as Hermaphroditize these poore times, With wicked scald iests, extreame gullerie.
1598 B. Jonson Euery Man in his Humor iii. v For your greene wound, your Balsamum, and your St. John's woort are all mere gulleries.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. iv. 197 Leo Decimus..took an extraordinary delight in humoring of silly fellowes, and to put gulleries vpon them.
1638 J. Ford Fancies v. 63 Spadone Confest it was a gullery put on Secco.
1678 H. More Let. 25 May 1 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) The marvellous weakness and gullerie of Mr. Webster's Display of Witchcraft.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 315 Law..puts a thousand Tricks and Gulleries upon him.
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 269 Those Mountebanks in Religion, who by fair Stories, and specious Gulleries, wheedle men out of their Sense and Reason.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. viii. 205 Do you think..that you may put any gullery you will on me?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
gulleryn.2
/ˈɡʌləri/ A haunt or breeding-place of gulls.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > haunt or breeding place of
gullery1833
1833 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol. II. 510 These breeding places, or gulleries [printed galleries], are sometimes at a considerable distance from the sea.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 335/1 The Gullery (or summer resort of the species) produced a revenue of from 50l. to 80l. to the proprietor.
1853 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 237 There used to be a ‘gullery’, as a colony of sea-gulls is called, at Norbury.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere v. 35 With one last long look, we bade adieu to Scoulton Gullery.
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