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shark-gulls

shark-gulls is the plural of shark-gull.

Meaning of shark-gull

Noun

shark-gull (plural shark-gulls)

  1. (obsolete) A confidence trickster; a person who preys on simpletons.
    • Complainest thou of bad doings, when there are harlots of all trades, and knaves of all languages? Knowest thou not that sin may be committed either in French, Dutch, Italian, or Spanish, and all after the English fashion? But thou excusest the negligence of thy practice by the last summer's...1604, Thomas Middleton, The Black Book; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 5, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 524
    Synonyms:
    conman, sharker

Questions about shark-gulls

What is shark-gulls the plural of?
Shark-gulls is the plural of shark-gull.

Words near shark-gulls in the dictionary

  1. shark-fin soup
  2. shark-finned
  3. shark-fins
  4. shark-flesh
  5. shark-gull
  6. shark-gulls
  7. shark-infested
  8. shark-jumping
  9. sharka
  10. sharkbite
  11. sharkdom

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