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Cully vs Pully - What's the difference?

cully | pully |

As nouns the difference between cully and pully

is that cully is a person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person while pully is (informal) pullover.

As a verb cully

is to trick, to impose on, to dupe.

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.
  • pully

    English

    Noun

    (pullies)
  • (informal) pullover
  • See also

    * pulley