gull

Meanings

Noun

• A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
• Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora (genus).
• A cheating trick; a fraud.
• One easily cheated; a dupe.
• A swindler or trickster.

Verb

• To deceive or cheat.
• To mislead.
• To trick and defraud.

Related

Similar words

• mew, seamew, seagull

Origin

• From Middle English gulle, from a language, from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *wailannā ("seagull"). Cognate with Welsh gwylan, Cornish goolan, Breton gouelan, Old Irish faílenn. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton.
• Perhaps from an obsolete term gull.