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gull

1[guhl]
–noun
any of numerous long-winged, web-toed, aquatic birds of the family Laridae, having usually white plumage with a gray back and wings.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME gulle, perh. < Welsh gŵylan, Cornish guilan (cf. F goéland < Breton gwelan)


gull-like, adjective
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gull 
c.1430 (in a cook book), probably from Brythonic Celtic, cf. Welsh gwylan "gull," Cornish guilan, Breton goelann; all from O.Celt. *voilenno-. Replaced O.E. mæw.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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