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cullies

cullies is the plural of cully.

Meaning of cully

Noun

cully (plural cullies)

  1. (archaic) A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
    • Yet the rich Cullies may their boaſting ſpare; / They purchaſe but ſophiſticated VVare.1678, [John] Dryden, “Epilogue”, in Nat[haniel] Lee, Mithridates King of Pontus, a Tragedy: […], London: […] R[obert] E[veringham] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley, […], →OCLC
  2. (slang) A companion.
  3. (archaic, historical) A male client of a prostitute; a john, a gonk.
    • The assumption tends to be the opposite: Whores constantly seek sexual encounters to fulfill their burning desires and also sometimes manage to wheedle gold out of their cullies.2006, Laura J. Rosenthal, Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Cornell University Press, page 2

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Questions about cullies

What is cullies the plural of?
Cullies is the plural of cully.

Words near cullies in the dictionary

  1. Culley
  2. Culleys
  3. cullibility
  4. cullible
  5. cullied
  6. cullies
  7. Culliford
  8. Cullifords
  9. Culligan
  10. Culligans
  11. Cullimore

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