English

Noun

Gull ‎(plural Gulls)

1. (soccer) A player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.

English

A gull

Noun

gull ‎(plural gulls)

1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.

Synonyms

• (seabird): mew, seagull

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from an obsolete term gull ‎(“swallow”).^[1]

Noun

gull ‎(plural gulls)

1. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3

     BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.

2. One easily cheated; a dupe.

Synonyms

• (dupe): See also Wikisaurus:dupe

Verb

gull ‎(third-person singular simple present gulls, present participle gulling, simple past and past participle gulled)

1. To deceive or cheat.
   • Dryden

     The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.

   • Coleridge

     I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165

     […] speak your curses out

     Against me, who would sooner crush and grind

     A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress

     An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]

2. (US, slang) To mislead.
3. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

Derived terms

• gullible
• gullibility

Translations

References

1. ↑ “gull” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊtl/

Noun

gull n (genitive singular guls, uncountable)

1. gold
2. (in proverbs) richness, money, livestock
3. gold medal, first place (sports, etc.)

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gull ‎(“gold”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʏtl/
• Rhymes: -ʏtl

Noun

gull n ‎(genitive singular gulls, nominative plural gull)

1. (uncountable) gold
2. (countable) a cherished thing
3. (countable) a gold medal or prize
4. indefinite accusative singular of gull
5. indefinite nominative plural of gull
6. indefinite accusative plural of gull

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Derived terms

• ekki er allt gull sem glóir
• glópagull
• gull af manni
• morgunstund gefur gull í mund

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą.

Noun

gull n ‎(definite singular gullet, singulare tantum)

1. gold

Derived terms

References

• “gull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gull and goll, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą.

Noun

gull n ‎(definite singular gullet, uncountable)

1. gold

Derived terms

References

• “gull” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• goll

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulþą ‎(“gold”). Cognate with Old English gold, Old Frisian gold, Old Saxon gold, Old Dutch golt, Old High German gold, Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌻𐌸 ‎(gulþ). See also Finnish kulta. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic *ǵʰl̥tóm ‎(“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- ‎(“yellow; gleam; to shine”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡulː/

Noun

gull n (genitive gulls, plural gull)

1. (uncountable, singular only) gold
   • Laurentius saga 65, in 1858, Jón_Sigurðsson, Guðbrandur_Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 877:

     Vér viljum ok gefa þér gull vort, […]

     We also want to give you our gold, […]

2. (countable) a jewel, thing of value, especially a finger-ring
   • Stjórn 78, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 254:

     Enn þegar sem hon bar þetta gull, […]

     But when she wore that ring, […]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• gull in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gull in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• gull in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą.

Noun

gull n

1. (poetic, archaic) gold; standard Swedish guld

   Har du silver har du gull, / har du kistorna full?

   Do you have silver and gold, / are your treasure chests full? (song lyrics)

   Wilt thw wara tik sielffuir hull, / tw älska friiheet meer än gull (Old Swedish, poem by bishop Tomas, 1439)

   Vill du vara dig själver huld, / du älska frihet mer än guld (translated to standard Swedish)

   If you want to help yourself, you should love freedom more than gold

2. (colloquial) baby, darling, someone dear and cute (gullig), someone to cuddle (gulla med)

   mina små gull

   my little darlings

   Kom nu gullet, det är finfint väder ute

   Come on baby, it's a perfect sunny day

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