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English
Pronunciation
Noun
gullion (plural gullions)
- (obsolete) A worthless wretch
Derived terms
Scots
Etymology 1
From Irish góilín (“a creek, gully”).[1]
Noun
gullion (plural gullions)
- quagmire, swamp, cesspool
Etymology 2
Variant of cullion, from Old French coyon (“scoundrel”)[2] or couille (“scrotum; testicle”).[3]
Noun
gullion (plural gullions)
- a gullion, a wretch, a worthless person
References
- ^ “gullion, n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- ^ “cullion, cullyeon, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
- ^ “cull, n.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.