slang and dial. [perh. abbreviation of CULLY.] A dupe, silly fellow, simpleton, fool; a man, fellow, chap.
1698. In Vino Veritas, 25. How prettily we top upon those Rum Culls called Gentlemen.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, VIII. xii. A way to empty the pocket of a queer cull.
a. 1764. Lloyd, On Rhyme, Poet. Wks. 1774, II. 107. The hen-peck’d culls of vixen wives.
1839. W. H. Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard, I. I. iii. 59 (Farmer). Capital trick of the cull in the cloak to make another person’s brat stand the brunt for his own.
