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CULLION

Definition: CULLION

CULLION

Noun

1. A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CULLION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)


Synonyms within Context: CULLION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Bad Man

Blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion; cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole; cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel; lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond; rogue; (knave); ronian; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CULLION

Etymologies containing "CULLION": Cowan. (references)

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Modern Translation: CULLION

Language Translations for "CULLION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

kercheen (base person, cringe of person; underling, cringe; underling, cur, cur person, down-and-out, henchman, rotter, servile person, vagabond, wretch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ullioncay

   

Ukrainian

  

негідник (blackguard, cad, caitiff, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, thief, varlet, wretch), падлюка (dog, nithing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CULLION

Derivations

Words beginning with "CULLION": cullions. (additional references)

Words ending with "CULLION": scullion. (additional references)

Words containing "CULLION": scullions. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CULLION"

Words rhyming with "CULLION" (pronounced 'Cul"lion'): Bullion, Decillion, medallion, million, modillion, Nonillion, Octillion, Perduellion, Pillion, Pompillion, Prillion, Quadrillion, Quintilllion, rapscallion, Rascallion, rebellion, scallion, Septillion, Sextillion, stallion, Stellion, Stillion, Tabellion, trillion, Turbillion. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CULLION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-l-l-n-o-u"

-1 letter: loculi, uncoil.

-2 letters: colin, nicol, oculi.

-3 letters: cion, clon, coil, coin, coni, cull, icon, lino, lion, loci, loin, nill, noil, null, unci, unco.

-4 letters: col, con, ill, ion, lin, nil, oil.

-5 letters: in, li, lo, no, nu, on, un.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-l-l-n-o-u"
 

+1 letter: cullions, nucleoli, scullion.

 

+2 letters: colluding, collusion, scullions.

 

+3 letters: allocution, callousing, calmodulin, colloguing, collusions, convolvuli, councillor, involucral, unilocular, univocally, unsocially.

 

+4 letters: allocutions, binocularly, calculation, calmodulins, conflictful, conflictual, connubially, continually, councillors, counselling, cupellation, multicolumn, nucleophile, punchinello, undecillion, unlocalized, unpolitical.

 

+5 letters: calculations, calumniously, carillonneur, conclusively, convulsively, counsellings, cupellations, duodecillion, equipollence, euphonically, flocculating, flocculation, functionally, gallinaceous, hallucinator, hallucinogen, hallucinoses, hallucinosis, licentiously, malocclusion, neurological, neurotically, nucleophiles, nucleophilic, outcavilling, punchinellos, solifluction, subsonically, uncompelling, undecillions, unecological, unironically, unofficially.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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