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Webster 1828 Edition


Gullish

GULL'ISH

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Noun.
Foolish; stupid. [Not in use.]

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gullish

gullish

English

Adjective

gullish (comparative more gullish, superlative most gullish)

  1. (archaic) Foolish, credulous, simple-minded.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.115:
      besides this inbred neglect of liberal sciences and all arts, which should excolere mentem, polish the mind, they have most part some gullish humour or other, by which they are led […].