GULL, GULLED (cheat, deceive)
ADJECTIVES
► GULLIFIED made a dupe of; gulled → 1624 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CULLY a person who is cheated or imposed upon, as by a sharper, strumpet etc.; a dupe, a gull; one who is easily deceived or take in; a silly fellow; a simpleton → 1664 colloq.
► GUDGEON a fool, a simpleton; a person who is easily gulled → 1862 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GULPIN one who will swallow anything; one easily gulled; a credulous simpleton; a fool → 1802
► JACKANAPES a clownish fellow, and one easily gulled → 1862 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RABBIT-SUCKER a rich young man or spendthrift who is gulled into running up large bills by confidence tricksters who later dun him for his debts → c1597 UK criminals’ sl.
VERBS
► BAFFLE to hoodwink, to gull, to cheat; to humbug; to make a fool of → c1590 obs.
► BEGECK to befool; to disappoint; to gull; to deceive; to jilt → a1513 obs. exc. Sc.
► BEGULL to gull, to impose upon → 1605 obs.
► INFANG to cheat, to gull, to ‘take in’ → 1793 Sc. obs.
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