Gull
[gʌl] or [ɡʌl]
Definition
(noun.) mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.
(verb.) fool or hoax; 'The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone'; 'You can't fool me!'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To deceive; to cheat; to mislead; to trick; to defraud.
(n.) A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
(n.) One easily cheated; a dupe.
(n.) One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Deceive, cheat, dupe, trick, chouse, diddle, cozen, overreach, circumvent, beguile, impose upon.
n. [1]. Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, fraud.[2]. Dupe, CAT'S-PAW.[3]. Mew, cob, seamew, sea-cob.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CHEAT]
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Definition
n. a web-footed sea-fowl belonging to the family Larid.
v.t. to beguile: to deceive.—n. a trick: one easily cheated: (Shak.) a nestling.—ns. Gull′-catch′er (Shak.) a cheat; Gull′er; Gull′ery imposture; Gullibil′ity.—adj. Gull′ible easily deceived.—n. Gullos′ity.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of gulls, is a prophecy of peaceful dealings with ungenerous persons. Seeing dead gulls, means wide separation for friends.
Editor: Sharon
Examples
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A gull comes sweeping by their heads and flouts them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I like peeps better than the gulls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But what gulls men are! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Study taught them that birds are really aeroplanes, and that buzzards and hawks and gulls stay in the air by balancing on or sliding down rising currents of air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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