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Definition: CULLY |
CULLYNoun1. To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive. 2. A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull. |
Date "CULLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cully A fop, a fool, a dupe. A contracted form of cullion, a despicable creature (Italian, coglione). Shakespeare uses the word two or three times, as "Away, base cullions!" (2 Henry VI., i. 3), and again in Taming of the Shrew, iv. 2 - "And makes a god of such a cullion." (Compare GULL.) "You base cullion, you." Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CULLY. A fog or fool: also, a dupe to women: from the Italian word coglione, a blockhead. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick. |
Dupe | Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CULLY |
| English words defined with "CULLY": Cullies, Cullyism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CULLY": BLEEDING CULLY ♦ CAT MATCH ♦ DARK CULLY ♦ FLOGGING CULLY, FOOLISH ♦ HEAD CULLY OF THE PASS ♦ KEEPING CULLY ♦ PASSAGE BANK. (references) |
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| "CULLY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "CULLY" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 83.33% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adverb (general) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CULLY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cully | Last name | 1,000 | 16,205 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cully | 27 |
zara cully | 6 |
cully jennifer | 3 |
cully hamner | 3 |
cully hotel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CULLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Njeri (creature, dog, homo, human, human being, laddie, man, one, person, relative), Çun. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Лековерен човек, "ругар (Buster, Comrade). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Mamlasz (chuckle-head, daw, fat-head, feather brain, featherbrain, feather-head, fumbler, gawk, geese, goose, muff, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, oaf, simple sammy, simpleton, softie, softy, spoon). (various references) | |
Italian | Sempliciotto (gaby, muggins, nincompoop, simple simon, simpleton). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ullycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trouxa (bundle, goat, pack), simplório (calvish, cuddy, dotterel, gaby, gander, goose, juggins, lummox, muggins, mutt, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, noodle, oaf, pigeon, prodigy, sawney, simp, simple, simple-minded, simpleton, soft, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, sucker, weak, woodcock, zany). (various references) | |
Romanian | Tovarãş (associate, brother, chum, companion, compeer, Comrade, fellow, friend, helpmate, mate, member, pal, partner), Prostãnac (daft, dolt, fat, fat-head, gowk, gudgeon, hobbledehoy, noodle, nut, pigeon, soft-headed, tomfool, zany), Prieten (chum, fellow, friend, man, mate, pal, young, young man), Fraier (rook, suck, sucker). (various references) | |
Russian | товарищ (associate, butty, chum, companion, compeer, comrade, fellow, mate, pal, stable companion, yokefellow, yokemate), Жертва Обмана, жертва обмана (dupe, fall guy), "руг. (various references) | |
Spanish | Muchacho (boy, lad, laddie, servant, youngster), Hombre (fellow, hubby, human being, husband, inamorato, light, love, man, old bean). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Простак (Yock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CULLY": cullying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CULLY" (pronounced ku"lē) |
| 3 | -u" l ē | gulley, gully, sully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-l-u-y" | |
-1 letter: cull. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-l-u-y" | |
+1 letter: cullay. | |
+2 letters: cruelly, cullays, curlily, ducally, lucidly, luckily. | |
+3 letters: actually, buccally, bullocky, calyculi, casually, caudally, causally, cloudily, clumsily, colloquy, cullying, culpably, dulcetly, lucently, mullocky, occultly, ocularly, pluckily, publicly, scullery, uncially. | |
+4 letters: buckyball, callously, calyculus, carefully, coequally, collyrium, crucially, cubically, cultishly, factually, jocularly, musically, secularly, slouchily, tactfully, tactually, uncivilly, uncleanly, unluckily, unlyrical. | |
+5 letters: buckyballs, cheerfully, churlishly, circularly, cliquishly, collyriums, colorfully, communally, conjugally, culinarily, culturally, ebulliency, eucalyptol, fancifully, fiducially, flatulency, forcefully, gracefully, judicially, luculently, lusciously, mercifully, muscularly, nautically, oracularly, peacefully, peculiarly, pellucidly, publically, punctually, rubrically, rustically, scornfully, secludedly, specularly, subvocally, suicidally, surgically, univocally, unsocially, watchfully. | |
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