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Gull is a related term of delude.


As a noun gull

is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with.

As a verb delude is

to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

gull

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  • Synonyms
    * (seabird) mew, seagull

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an obsolete term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • * 1599 ,
  • BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
  • One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • Synonyms
    * (dupe) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deceive or cheat.
  • * Dryden
  • The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  • * Coleridge
  • I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
  • * 1819 , , 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
  • (US, slang) To mislead.
  • (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
  • Derived terms
    * gullible * gullibility

    References

    delude

    English

    Verb

    (delud)
  • To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
  • * Burke
  • To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
  • (obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
  • * Dryden
  • It deludes thy search.

    Synonyms

    * (to deceive) deceive, mislead

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