Dark Cully (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Dark Cully

A married man that keeps a mistress, whom he visits only at night, for fear of discovery.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

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