Gull vs Sucker - What's the difference?

Sucker is a synonym of gull.

In us slang terms the difference between gull and sucker

is that gull is to trick and defraud while sucker is a native of Illinois.

As nouns the difference between gull and sucker

is that gull is a seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae while sucker is a person or thing that sucks.

As verbs the difference between gull and sucker

is that gull is to deceive or cheat while sucker is to strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

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

External links

* (wikipedia) * (Larus) ----

sucker

English

Etymology 1

From the verb (suck).

Noun

(en noun)

A person or thing that sucks.

An organ or body part that does the sucking.

An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.

A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop.

(horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.

(British, colloquial) A suction cup.

A suckling animal.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.

(Boyle)

A pipe through which anything is drawn.

A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.

A parasite; a sponger.

* Fuller

They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker , no branch.

(slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.

A person that sucks; a general term of disparagement.

Synonyms

* (piece of candy) lollipop

Verb

(en verb)

To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.

to sucker maize

Etymology 2

Possibly from the (Pig in a poke) scam, where victims were tricked into believing they were buying a young (that is a suckling) pig. Also possibly from suckener.

Noun

(en noun)

One who is easily fooled, or gulled.

Synonyms

* (one who is easily fooled) chump, fall-guy, fish, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, rube, schlemiel, soft touch * See also

Verb

(en verb)

To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.

The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.

Etymology 3

Possibly from German (thing).

Noun

(en noun)

(slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

Synonyms

* thing, object

Anagrams

* English agent nouns