cully
UK/ˈkʌli/
cully noun: a person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
Noun
cully (plural cullies)
- 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
- I have learned that […] I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.1911 March 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SUNDAY, March 9, 1910–1911”, in The Spectator, number 9; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
- A companion.
- 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
Verb
cully (third-person singular simple present cullies, present participle cullying, simple past and past participle cullied)
Proper noun capitalized: Cully
Cully (plural Cullys)
- A surname from Irish.
cully meaning in Tamil
cully in Tamil
- இழிபேதை
Forms of cully
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cullies |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cullies |
| present participle | cullying |
| past participle | cullied |
| past | cullied |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cullys |
| alternative form | Culley |
Origin of cully
Uncertain. Short for cullion? Compare Irish cuallaí (“companion”)
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Colla (“descendant of Colla”), a personal name of unknown origin.
Words formed from cully
Words that rhyme with cully
Questions about cully
- What does cully mean?
- Cully means a person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
- What is cully in Tamil?
- Cully in Tamil is இழிபேதை. See Cully meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cully?
- Cully can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cully?
- Cully is pronounced /ˈkʌli/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cully?
- The plural of cully is cullies.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cully (page history and authors); Cully (page history and authors); cully (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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