gulllike

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 Middle English gulle, perhaps < Welsh gŵylan, Cornish guilan (compare French goéland < Breton gwelan)

Related forms

gull-like, adjective

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gull¹ (ɡʌl)

—n
	any aquatic bird of the genus Larus and related genera, such as L. canus (common gull or mew) having long pointed wings, short legs, and a mostly white plumage: family Laridae, order CharadriiformesRelated: larine

Related: larine

[C15: of Celtic origin; compare Welsh gwylan]

'gull-like¹

—*adj*

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gull² (ɡʌl)

—n
1.	a person who is easily fooled or cheated

—vb
2.	(tr) to fool, cheat, or hoax

[C16: perhaps from dialect gull unfledged bird, probably from gul, from Old Norse gulr yellow]

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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.

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