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GULL
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Gullake, Gudloc (Old English GūðlÄc, composed of the elements gūð ‘battle’ + lÄc ‘sport’, ‘play’, reinforced by the Old Norse cognate Guðleikr).See Gullick.
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Norse
Old Norse name GULLTOPPR means "golden mane." In mythology, this is the name of the horse of Heimdall.
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English
English : variant of Gulley.Possibly a variant of Irish Gooley.
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English, Dutch, and German
English, Dutch, and German : occupational name for a retail trader, Middle English manger, monger, Middle Dutch manger, menger, Middle High German mangære, mengære (from Late Latin mango ‘salesman’, with the addition of the Germanic agent suffix).Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in southwestern Norway named as Mángr in Old Norse, perhaps from már ‘sea gull’ + angr ‘fjord’.
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Norwegian
Norwegian form of Old Norse Gulltoppr, GULLTOPP means "golden mane." In mythology, this is the name of the horse of Heimdall.
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Swedish
Pet form of Danish/Swedish Gunilla, GULLAN means "war-battle."
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English
English : unexplained.
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English
English : nickname for a greedy person, from Old French goulafre ‘glutton’.
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English
English : variant of Gulliver, altered by association with place names ending in -ford.
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English
English : variant spelling of Gulick.Dutch (van Gullick) : habitational name for someone from Jülich (Dutch Gulik) in North Rhine-Westphalia.Altered spelling of German Gullich or Güllich, nickname for a bald or clean-shaven man, from Slavic (Sorbian) holy ‘naked’, ‘beardless’. Compare Gulledge.
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English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : variant of Gulley.German : variant of Gohl, or in the south of Goll.
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English
English : from Middle English gojon, gogen, Old French gougon ‘gudgeon’ (the fish) (Latin gobio, genitive gobionis), applied as a nickname or perhaps as a metonymic occupational name for a seller of these fish. The gudgeon is considered easy to catch, so the nickname may have denoted a gullible person.
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English
English : descriptive nickname for a giant or a large man, from Middle English golias ‘giant’, from the Hebrew personal name Golyat Goliath. In the Bible Goliath was the champion of the Philistines, who stood ‘six cubits and a span’; he was defeated in single combat by the shepherd boy David (I Samuel 17), who killed him with a stone from his sling. There is unlikely to be any connection with the English vocabulary word gully (from Old French goulet ‘neck of a bottle’), which is not attested in this sense before the 17th century.Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet.
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English (mainly Berkshire)
English (mainly Berkshire) : apparently a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, which would derive its name from Old English hrēac ‘mound’ (compare Rackham) or hraca ‘throat’, ‘gulley’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English gulle ‘gull’ or gul(le) (Old Norse gulr) ‘yellow’, ‘pale’ (of hair or complexion).Swiss German : nickname for an irascible or unreliable person, from an Alemannic form of Latin gallus ‘rooster’. See also Guell.
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English (mainly Yorkshire)
English (mainly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a stream in a marsh or in a hollow, from Middle English syke ‘marshy stream’, ‘damp gully’, or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, in Lancashire and West Yorkshire.
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English
English : from Middle English woodcock (a compound of Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cocc ‘cock’, ‘bird’), a bird that is notoriously easy to catch, hence a nickname for a stupid or gullible person.English : variant of Woodcott, a habitational name from any of various places named with Old English wudu ‘wood’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’, as for example Woodcott in Cheshire and Hampshire or Woodcote in Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, and Shropshire.
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Swedish
Pet form of Danish/Swedish Gunilla, GULLA means "war-battle."
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English
English : variant spelling of Gulley.
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English
English : nickname from a noun derivative of Middle English gull, Old Norse gulr ‘pale’.
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GULL
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English
English : habitational name from Tonacliffe in Lancashire, recorded in 1246 as Tunwal(e)clif, from Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’ + wæll(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + clif ‘bank’, ‘slope’.
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Indian
She was a narrator of Hadith (She was the daughter of Amer al-mujashaiyah)
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Armored by the Gods
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Australian, Danish, Finnish, German, Latin, Scandinavian
Little; Small
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German
Variant form of Old High German Haduwig, HEDWIG means "contending battle."
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Hindu
Goddess Lakshmi, Auspicious, Luster, Prosperity, Pratham, Shrestha
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Indian
Female companion of the prophet
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British, English
From the Old Cottage
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Indian, Tamil
Light
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English
English : nickname meaning ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’, ‘fair’, Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women.Irish : translation of Gaelic fionn ‘fair’, which Woulfe describes as ‘a descriptive epithet that supplanted the real surname’, or a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac F(h)inn, a variant of Mag Fhinn (see McGinn).
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GULL
n.
The young of the great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), formerly considered a distinct species.
n.
Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
pl.
of Gully
a.
Easily gulled; that may be duped.
a.
Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.
n.
One who gulls; a deceiver.
n.
An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gully
imp. & p. p.
of Gull
n.
A jager gull.
n.
A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.
v. t.
To wear into a gully or into gullies.
imp. & p. p.
of Gully
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gull
n.
Act of being gulled.
n.
Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
n.
A gull.
n.
The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus).
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of Gully