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    A gull is a sea bird with long wings, a strong , and a loud, sharp cry. The ones usually meet are pale: white, grey, or black-and-white. They live by the sea — beaches, harbours, cliffs — but they also hang around towns and car parks near water, because they are bold about food. They eat fish, crabs, scraps, and whatever people drop; they will snatch a chip from a bench if you are not watching. In everyday talk people often say seagull. Though actually, in bird books the name is just gull: the “sea” is extra, since this family already belongs to the coast. “Seagull” is not wrong; it is the word. There are many kinds, some small, some as big as a duck, but English speakers often lump them together as one familiar bird over the water.

組成From Middle English gulle, from an old Celtic (Brythonic) name for this bird — the same name-family as Welsh gwylan and Breton gouelan. It took the place of older English names such as mew.

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Gullnoun

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA player, supporter or other person connected with Torquay United Football Club.

Gullname

  • 1

    A surname.

gullnoun詞源 1/ˈɡʌl/

  • 1

    A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.

    • The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
    • Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
  • 2

    Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

gullnoun詞源 2/ˈɡʌl/

  • 1

    slangA cheating trick; a fraud.

    • 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

    A stupid animal.

  • 3

    One easily cheated; a dupe.

  • 4

    obsoleteA swindler or trickster.

    • You'll excuse me, sir, but as you are fresh, take care to avoid the gulls; they fly about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite like hawks, and pick many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"

gullverb詞源 2/ˈɡʌl/

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    To deceive or cheat.

    • O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.
    • The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  • 2

    slangTo mislead.

  • 3

    slangTo trick and defraud.

  • 4

    dialectalTo flatter, wheedle.

gullnoun詞源 3/ˈɡʌl/

  • 1

    dialectalA breach or hole made by the force of a torrent; fissure, chasm.

  • 2

    dialectalA channel made by a stream; a natural watercourse; running water.

gullverb詞源 3/ˈɡʌl/

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    dialectalTo sweep away by the force of running water; to carve or wear into a gully.

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