gulling

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Verb

gulling

  1. present participle and gerund of gull

Noun

gulling (plural gullings)

  1. An instance of duping or fooling someone.
    • 1604 (date written), Tho Dekker, , The Honest Whore.  (4th quarto), London: Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse,  sold at his shop vnder S. Butolphes Church without Aldersgate.">…], 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. 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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