seagulled

English

Etymology

seagull + -ed

Adjective

seagulled (comparative more seagulled, superlative most seagulled)

  1. Filled with seagulls.
    • 1985, Christopher Rush, A Twelvemonth and a Day, Canongate Books (1994), →ISBN, page 146:
      Opening my eyes again, my poppy head hanging over the edge, I watched the flatfish flapping slowly in and out of the harbour mouth, taking the sun on the sandgreen bed of the bottom, where the seagulled sky was superimposed like a dream — birds and fish mingling in an impossible element.
    • 1988, Rony Robinson, The Beano, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1988), →ISBN, page 87:
      It dashes round the corner on the Marine Drive without paying the toll and climbs all the seagulled slopes above it, right up to the castle.
    • 1999, Charlotte Wood, Pieces of a Girl, Pan Macmillan Australia (1999), →ISBN, page 18:
      And then a shared half-smile at the glimpse and a resting of hand over hand, and a deep slow breath taking in the seagulled air and the harbour and the sky.

Verb

seagulled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of seagull
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