Gull

Noun

 * 1) A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
 * 2)  A cheating trick; a fraud.
 * 3) One easily cheated; a dupe.

Synonyms

 * mew
 * seagull
 * See also Thesaurus:dupe

Verb

 * 1) To deceive or cheat
 * 2) * 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
 * […] speak your curses out
 * Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
 * A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
 * An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]
 * 1) 🇺🇸 To mislead
 * 2) 🇺🇸 To trick and defraud

Related terms

 * gullible
 * gullibility

Adjectives for Gull
curving; circle; flannel; flapping; laughing; fading; strenuous; notorious; gleaming.

Verbs for Gull
—barks; —bullies; —chatters; — colonize; —darts; —fishes; —floats; — flock; — fraternize; — prey on; —rends the air; — robs; —roves; —sails; —screams; —shrills; —skims; —soars; —squalls; —swoops; — wails; —wheels; —wings out to sea.

Thesaurus
babe, bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bluff, boob, bunco, burn, cajole, cheat, cheat on, chicane, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, chump, cinch, circumvent, cog, cog the dice, con, conjure, cozen, credulous person, crib, cull, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do in, do out of, double-cross, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, euchre, fall guy, finagle, fish, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, forestall, fudge, gammon, get around, gobe-mouches, gouge, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gyp, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, humbug, infatuate, innocent, juggle, leadpipe cinch, let down, mock, monkey, mulct, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack the deal, patsy, pigeon, play one false, plaything, practice fraud upon, prize sap, pushover, put on, put something over, rook, sap, saphead, scam, schlemiel, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, sitting duck, snow, stack the cards, stick, sting, stooge, string along, stultify, sucker, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, toy, trick, trusting soul, two-time, victim, victimize

Etymology
Probably from gouelan:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: meeu, seemeeu
 * Albanian: pulëbardha
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: kaio, antxeta
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: gouelan
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: gavina, gavià
 * Chinese: 海鷗, 海鸥 (hǎi óu)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: måge
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, máur, mávur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Friulian: cocâl, smurgnic
 * Galician: gaivota papoia
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鴎 (カモメ, kamome)
 * Korean: 갈매기 (galmaegi)
 * Ladin: gabian
 * Latin: ,


 * Latvian: kaija
 * Lithuanian: kiras, mevas
 * Low Saxon: Meiw’, Mööw’
 * Lower Sorbian: ryborak, rybornik
 * Luxembourgish: Méiw
 * Macedonian: галеб (galeb)
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: gavian
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: chayka, chirikli-mariaki
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: muetta
 * Russian:
 * Sami: báiski
 * Sardinian: cau marinu, laru, gavina
 * Scottish: faoileag
 * Serbian: галеб (galeb)
 * Slovak: čajka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: tonuška
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: seefûgel, meau

Etymology
From gull:.

Noun
gull


 * 1) gold
 * 2) (in proverbs) richness, money, livestock
 * 3) gold medal, first place (sports, etc.)

Etymology
From gull: from.

Noun

 * 1)  gold
 * 2)  a cherished thing
 * 3)  a gold medal or prize

Derived terms

 * ekki er allt gull sem glóir
 * glópagull
 * gull af manni
 * morgunstund gefur gull í mund

Etymology
From gull:

Noun

 * 1) gold

Derived terms

 * forgylt
 * gullende
 * gyllen

Etymology
From. Spelled as goll: in the oldest manuscripts. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌻𐌸:, Old English gold: (English gold:) and German Gold:, Dutch goud:.

Noun

 * 1) gold

Descendants

 * Danish: guld
 * Faroese: gull
 * Icelandic: gull


 * Norwegian: gull
 * Swedish: guld

Noun

 * 1)   gold; standard Swedish guld
 * Har du silver har du gull, / har du kistorna full?
 * Do you have silver and gold, / are your treasure chests full? (song lyrics)
 * Wilt thw wara tik sielffuir hull, / tw älska friiheet meer än gull (Old Swedish, poem by bishop Tomas, 1439)
 * Vill du vara dig själver huld, / du älska frihet mer än guld (translated to standard Swedish)
 * If you want to help yourself, you should love freedom more than gold
 * 1)  baby, darling, someone dear and cute (gullig), someone to cuddle (gulla med)
 * mina små gull
 * my little darlings
 * Kom nu gullet, det är finfint väder ute
 * Come on baby, it's a perfect sunny day