gulling
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Pronunciation
Verb
gulling
- present participle and gerund of gull
Noun
gulling (plural gullings)
- An instance of duping or fooling someone.
- 1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, verso:
- Viola Svvagger vvorſe then a Lieutenant among freſhvvater ſouldiers, call me your loue, your ingle, your coſen, or ſo; but ſiſter at no hand. / Fuſt[igo]. No, no, it ſhall be cozen, or rather cuz that's the gulling vvord betvveene the Cittizens vviues and their old dames, that man em to the garden; […]
- 1982, The Colby Library Quarterly, volumes 18-19, page 119:
- The central position of the rogues in the plot gives unity to what could be merely a collection of gullings.
- 2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, volume 52, page 121:
- Twelfth Night is replete with gullings, albeit of different degrees and durations.
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