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Cully vs Culty - What's the difference?

cully | culty |

As a noun cully

is a person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.

As a verb cully

is to trick, to impose on, to dupe.

As an adjective culty is

resembling a cult.

cully

English

Noun

(cullies)
  • A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
  • * Addison
    • I have learned that I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.
  • *2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 158:
  • *:One [attitude] was a fascination with street-walkers and and courtesans as self-confident entrepreneurs, able to outwit their simple cullies .
  • (slang) A companion.

    • Verb

  • To trick, to impose on, to dupe.

    • culty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a cult
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, January 15, C.C. Pyle, Our Bodies, Their Selves, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage="They're not real culty . You look in their eyes and there are real people there." }}

    Synonyms

    * cultish * cultlike