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  • noun Plural form of cully.

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Examples

  • I dring to them, bycorn spirits fuselaiding, and you cullies adjutant, even where its contentsed wody, with absents wehrmuth.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The world is a continual round of nauseous repetition: In the last generation, and this, young girls were mad for husbands, then mad to get rid of ` em; sharpers had their cullies, gamesters, their fools.

    The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother 1999

  • And we all of us from Hanks and Sykes through the rum coves, snitches, hicks, cullies and boozers to the dying wretches on that platform over there walk a rope across a pit of fire.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • “I will now proceed, cullies, to tell ye what to do and how to do it.”

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • “I will now proceed, cullies, to tell ye what to do and how to do it.”

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Ye are locked in, me dimber cullies, so what youse do inside I do not care hany more than Mr. Campbell do.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Ye are locked in, me dimber cullies, so what youse do inside I do not care hany more than Mr. Campbell do.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • And we all of us from Hanks and Sykes through the rum coves, snitches, hicks, cullies and boozers to the dying wretches on that platform over there walk a rope across a pit of fire.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • "Now that you've heard us old cullies to the end, are ye sure it would not be best to go around, and leave them to their business?"

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • This London companion more and more inclined him to vice, and the history he gave of his living with a woman -- who cheated her other cullies to maintain him, and at last for the sake of a new sweetheart, stripped him of all he had one night while he slept, and left him so much in debt that he was obliged to fly into the country -- the relation,

    Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

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