Brewer's: Gull

(rhymes with dull). A dupe, one easily cheated. (See Bejan.)

The most notorious geck and gull That e'er invention played on.

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, v. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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