Meaning

A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae..

Definitions by Sense

1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
3. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
4. A stupid animal.
5. One easily cheated; a dupe.
6. (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
7. To deceive or cheat.
8. (US, slang) To mislead.

Example Sentences

The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.

Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.

You'll excuse me, sir, but as you are fresh, take care to avoid the gulls; they fly about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite like hawks, and pick many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"

O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.

The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.

And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed vvhen People are to be gulled vvith noiſy Nothings? i.e. vvith empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.

I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.

Word Forms

• gulls
• gulling
• gulled
• gool

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