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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish golan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *weilannā (“seagull”). Cognate with Old Irish foílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).

derived from *wailannā✻
derived from *gwuɨlann✻
inherited from gulle

Definitions

1
A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
- The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
- Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
3
A cheating trick
A cheating trick; a fraud.
- BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
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1. A stupid animal.
2. One easily cheated
  One easily cheated; a dupe.
3. A swindler or trickster.
4. 7
  To deceive or cheat.
  - O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
  - The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  - And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed vvhen People are to be gulled vvith noiſy Nothings? i.e. vvith empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.
5. To mislead.
6. To trick and defraud.
7. To flatter, wheedle.
8. A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent
  A breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.
9. A channel made by a stream
  A channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.
10. To sweep away by the force of running water
  To sweep away by the force of running water; to carve or wear into a gully.
11. A player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.
12. A surname.

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Derived

as the gull flies, Audouin's gull, black-backed gull, black-headed gull, Bonaparte's gull, Caspian gull, common gull, Dominican gull, European herring gull, flood gull, Franklin's gull, glaucous gull, great black-backed gull, greater black-backed gull, gull-billed tern, gull chaser, gullfeed, gull-wing, gullwing, Heermann's gull, herring gull, Iceland gull, ivory gull, kelp gull, land gull, laughing gull, lesser black-backed gull, little gull, Mediterranean gull, mew gull, Pacific gull, Pallas's gull, red-billed gull, ring-billed gull, robber gull, Ross's gull, Sabine's gull, sea-gull, seagull, shark-gull · +13 more

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