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gullings

gullings is the plural of gulling.

Meaning of gulling

Noun

gulling (plural gullings)

  1. An instance of duping or fooling someone.
    • Viola Svvagger vvorſe then a Lieutenant among freſhvvater ſouldiers, call me your loue, your ingle, your coſen, or ſo; but ſiſter at no hand. / Fuſt[igo]. No, no, it ſhall be cozen, or rather cuz that's the gulling vvord betvveene the Cittizens vviues and their old dames, that man em to the garden...1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, verso

Questions about gullings

What is gullings the plural of?
Gullings is the plural of gulling.

Words near gullings in the dictionary

  1. Gullifords
  2. gulligut
  3. gulliguts
  4. Gullinbursti
  5. gulling
  6. gullings
  7. gullion
  8. gullions
  9. gullish
  10. gullishly
  11. gullishness

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