Word.ws English Dictionary

gulliver

/ˈɡʌlɪvə(ɹ)/

gulliver noun: one's head.

Noun

gulliver (plural gullivers)

  1. (slang) one's head.

Proper noun capitalized: Gulliver

Gulliver (countable and uncountable, plural Gullivers)

  1. A surname.
  2. The main character in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
  3. A suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Forms of gulliver

Noun
pluralgullivers
Proper noun
pluralGullivers
alternative formGulliford

Origin of gulliver

From Russian голова́ (golová, “head; mind, brains”). Probably initially popularized by the Russian-influenced argot spoken by characters in the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Spelling influenced by Gulliver.

English surname of Norman origin, nickname for a greedy person, from Old French goulafre (“glutton”), from goule (“mouth”).

Words formed from gulliver

Questions about gulliver

What does gulliver mean?
Gulliver means one's head.
What part of speech is gulliver?
Gulliver can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gulliver?
Gulliver is pronounced /ˈɡʌlɪvə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of gulliver?
The plural of gulliver is gullivers.

Words near gulliver in the dictionary

  1. gullion
  2. gullions
  3. gullish
  4. gullishly
  5. gullishness
  6. gulliver
  7. Gulliverian
  8. gullivers
  9. Gullo
  10. gullock
  11. gullocks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gulliver (page history and authors); Gulliver (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-gulliver.ogg.

Cite this entry: “gulliver.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gulliver. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.