/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Gull (rhymes with dull)
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A dupe, one easily cheated. (See Bejan.)
“The most notorious geck and gull
That eʹer invention played on.”
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, v. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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