gull
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9.3
- noun
- /ɡʌl/
- Offensive
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- Then I started kneading flour, yeast, sugar, gull eggs, and seal oil for aladiks.
Examples
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They don't have the gull or the audacity to address it.
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Why, he's a gull!
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"What would those old gull-baits think of that?"
Fiction book (1994) -
-Gull...
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He sounded happy, like his mood had flown off him, and he talked and talked like a gull.
Fiction book (1996) -
That's Bostick imitating a herring gull.
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Dawn was breaking over the curving palms, and the gulls, clustered on the telegraph lines, were waking.
Fiction book (1999) -
The promising animal, being also a lying animal, the medium of the promise is the birthplace of the scam, the con, the trick, and only a fool, a gull, enters into promises with an attitude of blind trust.
Academic text (1999) -
Biden cannot help but laugh at the gull of your Ryan's lies and pretend to look at you like he meant it without batting an eyelash, like he was telling the truth, but you know it was all memorized key points for him.
Blog text (29) -
He was such a gull that he believed every word of the scam artist's story.
Synonyms
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1.4
A person who makes poor decisions and is easily tricked
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7.0
A person who is easily tricked
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8.3
A person who is easily tricked or treated unfairly
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8.6
A person who is easily tricked and blamed by others
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8.8
A person who is easily tricked or cheated
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8.2
A person who is easily tricked or cheated
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7.0
A person who is easily tricked into believing false things
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9.9
A person who is foolish and easily tricked
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9.9
A person who trusts others too easily and gets tricked
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9.9
A person who is easily tricked and believes things without checking
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9.9
An old word for a person who is easily tricked
A person who easily agrees and can be taken advantage of
A person who trusts others and falls for tricks easily
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A medium-sized sea bird with a black head in summer that makes a loud call like a laugh
- US
A medium-sized seabird with a grey back and white belly found in Europe, Asia, and northeastern North America
A large white sea bird with black back and wings found on North Atlantic coasts
A white sea bird that lives in the Arctic and sometimes moves south to places like England or New Brunswick
How Gullible
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the noun gull meaning a person who is easily deceived is to think of the bird: because gulls will take food from people, they became a picture of an 'easy target', so calling someone a gull means 'someone who can be fooled'.