cully

Origin uncertain. Short for cullion?

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌli/
• Rhymes: -ʌli

cully (plural cullies)

1. (now rare) A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
   • Addison

     I have learned that […] I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.

   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 158:

     One [attitude] was a fascination with street-walkers and and courtesans as self-confident entrepreneurs, able to outwit their simple cullies.

2. (slang) A companion.

cully (third-person singular simple present cullies, present participle cullying, simple past and past participle cullied)

1. To trick, to impose on, to dupe.