What is the difference between dupe and gull?
dupe | gull |
To swindle, deceive, or trick.
To duplicate.
(photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
(restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
(informal) A duplicate.
(slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
* 1599 ,
One easily cheated; a dupe.
To deceive or cheat.
* Dryden
* Coleridge
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
(US, slang) To mislead.
(US, slang) To trick and defraud.
Gull is a synonym of dupe.
As verbs the difference between dupe and gull
is that dupe is to swindle, deceive, or trick while gull is to deceive or cheat.As nouns the difference between dupe and gull
is that dupe is a person who has been deceived while gull is a seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.dupe
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Verb
(dup)Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Abbreviation of duplicateVerb
(dup)- Can you dupe this photo for me?
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
gull
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .Synonyms
* (seabird) mew, seagullEtymology 2
Perhaps from an obsolete termNoun
(en noun)- BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
Synonyms
* (dupe) See alsoVerb
(en verb)- The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
- I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
- 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