gullage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
gullage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Act of being gulled or duped.
- 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- Had you no quirk / To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?
- 1611, Chapman, May Day, page 284:
- For procuring you the dear gullage of my sweetheart, Mistress Franceschina.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gullage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References[edit]
- “gullage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.