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Definition: CULLION |
CULLIONNoun1. A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. |
Date "CULLION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: CULLION |
| Etymologies containing "CULLION": Cowan. (references) |
| 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 негідник (blackguard, cad, caitiff, gallows, miscreant, niddering, pimp, rascal, reprobate, scoundrel, skunk, thief, varlet, wretch), падлюка (dog, nithing). (various references) | ||||||||||
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). | |
| 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) |
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. | |
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