Gull

Definition: Gull

Gull

Noun

1. A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.

2. Mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs.

Verb

1. Make a fool or dupe of.

2. Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Gull" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a god".

Date "gull" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Literature

Military & Defense

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gull

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Dupe

Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw.

Crosswords: Gull

Faeroese (gold), Icelandic (gold, golden), Manx (bay, bay of dog, howl, yowl), Norwegian (gold).

Olsenbanden tar gull (1972)

The Sea Gull (1968)

Pappa tar gull (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chekhov: The Major Plays: Ivanov, the Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, the Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard (reference)

• Happy Hollisters at Sea Gull Beach (reference)

• Return to Gull Haven (reference)

• Sandy Sea Gull (reference)

• The Cry of the Gull (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Gull (reference)

• Gull Lake Advance (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Gull, Rokelse Og Myrra [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A laughing gull rides the wind over the NOAA Ship FERREL. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Spotted gull chick hiding in the grass. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Gull Rock and Arch Rock Boswell Bay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A Great Black Backed Gull on a piling. Obviously not scared of the owl. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A young Laughing Gull. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Fish nets, fishing boats, and the random sea gull. Credit: Fisheries.

Birds of a feather don't always flock together - pelican and sea gull share adjacent pilings. Credit: Fisheries.

What appears to be a swallow-tailed gull - Creagrus furcatus - is framed in a lava arch along a Galapagos shoreline. Credit: Small World.

Far shot of Sea Gull in flight, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

A gull with chick on rock near some body of water. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "gull": East Gull Lake ♦ Gull teaser ♦ gull wing ♦ herring gull ♦ Hooded gull ♦ inverted gull wing ♦ ivory gull ♦ laughing gull ♦ Mackerel gull ♦ mew gull ♦ parasitic gull ♦ pewit gull ♦ robber gull ♦ Ross's gull ♦ sea gull ♦ South Gull Lake ♦ winter gull ♦ young gull. Additional references.

Beginning with "gull": gull-billed, gull-like, gull-wing, gull-winged, gull-wings.

Ending with "gull": herring-gull, peewit-gull, sea-gull.

Albanian

gënjej (bamboozle, beguile, cheat, deceive, defraud, fib, frig, lie, string along with, tell fibs, tell lies), pulëbardhë (mew, sea mew, seagull), çafkë (egret, heron). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نورس (mew), ‏سهل الأنخداع, ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏السهل الإنخداع, ‏الساذج (dupe, gaby, goose, lamb, loon, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, pigeon, simpleton, villain, zany), ‏إحتال (cheat, do, finesse, gyp, pluck, trick, victimize, wangle, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чайка (seagull), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), патка (duck), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

鷟 (phoenix, river gull), 鷗 (common gull). (various references)

Czech

racek (mew, seagull). (various references)

Danish

flydende vildlednings-radarreflektor. (various references)

Dutch

grote mantelmeeuw (great blackbacked gull, larus marinus), grote burgemeester (glaucous gull), zwartkopmeeuw (mediterranean gull), vorkstaartmeeuw (sabine's gull), Ross' meeuw (Ross's gull), rose meeuw (Ross's gull), larus marinus (great blackbacked gull, larus marinus), lachstern (gull-billed tern), lachmeeuw (laughing gull), kleine kokmeeuw (Bonaparte's gull), Franklins Meeuw (Franklin's gull), dwergmeeuw (little gull), burgemeester (burgomaster, mayor, provost). (various references)

Farsi 

یاعو, مغبون کردن (Deceive, Swindle), مرغ نوروزی , نوعی رنگ خاکستری کمرنگ , گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Dupe, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), گول (Bilk, Cajole, Cajolery, Cheat, Crimp, Deception, Humbug, Jape), گودکردن (Deepen, Scoop), حفرکردن (Cave, Excavate, Grave), حریصانه خوردن (Devour, Gobble, Gut, Guzzle, Lap, Wolf), ادم ساده لوح وزودباور, بلعیدن (Devour, Guzzle, Pouch, Swallow). (various references)

Finnish

lokki (seagull, sea-gull). (various references)

French

mouette, leurre flottant, faire tromper, facile à duper, duper, crédule (gullible, gullibly). (various references)

German

möwe (seagull). (various references)

Greek 

κορόιδο (dupe, fool, mug, rook, simp, simpleton, stooge, sucker), γλάροσ (mew, sea gull), γλάρος (seagull), εξαπατώ (beguile, bilk, cheat, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, fake out, pup, swindle, thimblering, victimize), αξαπατώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפתות (decoy, inveigle, lead on, lure, solicit, suborn, tempt), שחף (kittiwake, seagull, tern). (various references)

Hungarian

sirály (cob, mew, sea gull, sea mew, seagull), balek (angel, dupe, jay, lamb, muff, muggins, pigeon, pushover, sap, softy, sucker). (various references)

Italian

gabbiano (kittiwake, mew, seagull), gabbare (cheat, dupe, make fun), ingannare (abuse, bamboozle, be mistaken, be wrong, beguile, bluff, cheat, cod, deceive, delude, do, dupe, fool, Fox, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, impose, kid, lie, mislead, stall, swindle, trick, trickery, victimise, victimize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

海猫 (black-tailed gull). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うみねこ (black-tailed gull). (various references)

Manx

moylley (advocate; compliments, applaud, applause, bamboozle, boost, boost praise, cheer, cheer praise, commend, commendation, compliment, laud, plaudits, praise, promotion, put forward, recommend, recommendation, tribute), fooilleig (black headed gull), foilleig (little gull), foillan. (various references)

Norwegian

måke (seagull). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullgay.(various references)

Portuguese

gaivota (mew, saddleback, seagull, sea-mew), tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), simpl�rio (greenhorn, gudgeon, innocent), seduzir (allure, attract, bait, beguile, betray, debauch, decoy, drain-away, drive, enchant, entice, enticing, inveigle, lure, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp, wile), mistificar (bamboozle, flimflam, green, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mystify, spoof, trick, wangle), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile), bobo (buffoon, clown, droll, fool, goof, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jerk, jester, lout, merry andrew, ninny, ninny-hammer, pantaloon, scaramouch, silly, stupid, zany). (various references)

Romanian

gurã-cascã (booby, dupe), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), potcovi (shoe), pescar (Fisher, fisherman, mew, peterman, sea gull), pescãruş (kingfisher, pewit, sea mew), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), naiv (artless, credulous, deceivable, dupable, dupe, green, gullible, naïve, naif, puerile, silly, simple minded, simpleton, sincere, verdant), escroca (cheat, chouse, fiddle, fleece, gouge, humbug, rook, swindle, victimize), credul (credulous, gullible, unseeing), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Russian 

чайка (chaika, mew, sea gull, sea mew, seagull, sea-gull). (various references)

Scottish

sgàireag (one year old gull). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

galeb (mew, peewit, seagull), podvaliti (cheat, gouge, hoax, swindle, welch, welsh). (various references)

Spanish

gaviota (mew, sea mew, seagull), timar (cheat, chisel, do, swindle, trick), hacer gaviota, estafar (cheat, chisel, con, diddle, fiddle, fleece, gyp, rook, sharp, shortchange, swindle, take in, trick, twist), embaucar (bamboozle, cheat, deceive, defraud, diddle, dupe, fool, have on, hoodwink, impose upon, put across, put over, rook, take in, trick), embaucado. (various references)

Swedish

mås (seagull). (various references)

Thai

นกนางนวล (seagull), หลอกลวง (betray, cheat, dupe, euchre, fake out, fiddle, fool, fox, fudge, hoax, humbug, mountebank), คนโดนหลอกลวง. (various references)

Turkish

saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), martı (mew, puffin, sea mew, seagull, seamew), kandırarak almak (wheedle smth. out of smb.), enayi (chump, dupe, fall guy, fool, foolish, goat, gudgeon, mug, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, set up, sucker), dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize), aldanan kimse. (various references)

Turkmen 

зarlak (sea gull). (various references)

Ukrainian

чайка (Lapwing, mew, peewit, pewit, seagull), обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, dupe, flimflam, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short). (various references)

Welsh

gwylan (sea-gull). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gull": gullable, gullably, gulled, gullet, gullets, gulley, gulleys, gullibilities, gullibility, gullible, gullibly, gullied, gullies, gulling, gulls, gully, gullying. (additional references)

Words ending with "gull": seagull. (additional references)

Words containing "gull": seagulls, slumgullion, slumgullions. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gull" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aull, eull, gaull, ghul, glu, gluc, gluk, gluv, gol, golla, goul, grul, gual, guel, Guell, guelle, guil, guill, guillo, gul, gulal, Gule, Gulg, gulla, gulle, gullf, Gullo, gulr, gulu, gurl, guul, Jull, Mgulu, ugl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gul, lug.

+1 letter: gulls, gully.

+2 letters: gallus, gluily, glumly, gulled, gullet, gulley, ligula, ligule, uglily, ullage.

+3 letters: billbug, bulldog, bulling, culling, dulling, fugally, fulling, gallium, gallnut, gallous, gleeful, globule, gluteal, gullets, gulleys, gullied, gullies, gulling, hulling, ligulae, ligular, ligulas, ligules, lingual, lugsail, lulling, lungful, mulling, nulling, nutgall, plugola, pulling, seagull, sullage, ullaged, ullages.

+4 letters: aiguille, alluding, alluring, billbugs, bluegill, bulldogs, bullfrog, bullring, bullying, bullyrag, collogue, cullying, duelling, dunghill, frugally, fuelling, galliums, gallnuts, gallused, galluses, glandule, glassful, globular, globules, globulin, gloomful, gluelike, glumpily, glutelin, gruelled, grueller, guerilla, guileful, guiltily, gulflike, gullable, gullably, gullible, gullibly, gullying, hulloing, illuming, langlauf, lightful, ligulate, liguloid, linguals, lugsails, lungfuls, mulligan, nutgalls, plaguily, plugless, plugolas, plugugly, pulingly, quelling, quilling, sculling, seagulls, spurgall, sullages, sullying, ungalled, unialgal, vulgarly.