gulling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gull

plural gullings

1. An instance of duping or fooling someone.

   Twelfth Night is replete with gullings, albeit of different degrees and durations.

   2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, volume 52, page 121

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   Viola Svvagger vvorſe then a Lieutenant among freſhvvater ſouldiers, call me your loue, your ingle, your coſen, or ſo; but ſiſter at no hand. / Fuſt[igo]. No, no, it ſhall be cozen, or rather cuz that's the gulling vvord betvveene the Cittizens vviues and their old dames, that man em to the garden; […]

   1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, verso

   The central position of the rogues in the plot gives unity to what could be merely a collection of gullings.

   1982, The Colby Library Quarterly, volumes 18-19, page 119