gull

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gull

A white gull stands on a wooden pier by the ocean.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A seabird: A mostly white aquatic bird with long pointed wings and short legs, commonly found near coasts.
    • A naive person: A person who is easily deceived or tricked; someone gullible.

  2. Verb:

    • To deceive or trick: To fool or hoax someone; to make a person believe something that is not true.
Examples

  • Noun (bird):

    • A lone gull circled over the harbor, searching for fish.
    • The sound of crying gulls is a constant part of the seaside atmosphere.

  • Noun (person):

    • The con artist saw the tourist as an easy gull for his scam.
    • He was no gull; he questioned every offer that seemed too good to be true.

  • Verb:

    • The fraudulent scheme was designed to gull investors out of their savings.
    • You can't gull me with that old trick; I've seen it before.
Advanced Usage
  • "To gull someone into doing something": To deceive a person so that they perform a specific action.
    • The email tried to gull users into revealing their passwords by pretending to be from the bank.
Variants and Related Words
  • Gullible (adjective): Easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.
    • He was gullible enough to believe the outlandish story.
  • Gullibility (noun): The quality of being gullible.
    • The scam preyed on the gullibility of the elderly.
Synonyms
  • Noun (bird): Seagull, mew.
  • Noun (person): Dupe, sucker, fool, patsy, mark.
  • Verb: Dupe, deceive, trick, hoax, bamboozle, hoodwink.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs. The verb is typically used transitively: "to gull someone.")

Related Idioms
  • There's a sucker born every minute: An idiom expressing that there will always be gullible people available to be tricked. (This relates to the noun meaning of a naive person).
    • The salesman believed the old saying, "There's a sucker born every minute."
gull

A white gull stands on a wooden pier by the ocean.

Noun
  1. mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
  2. a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Verb
  1. fool or hoax
    • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
    • You can't fool me!
  2. make a fool or dupe of

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