gulleries

And for your greenwound, your balsamum, and your St. John's-wort, are all mere gulleries and trash to it, especially your Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

And for your green wound, -- your Balsamum and your St. John's wort, are all mere gulleries and trash to it, especially your Trinidado: your Nicotian is good too.

Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605

The second recipe is for a pastry called brides à veaux, which literally means “calves’ halters” and figuratively, according to Randle Cotgrave, “fopperies, gulleries, grosse tricks, or lyes; vnlikely tales, or things”—the point being that calves do not wear halters.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

The second recipe is for a pastry called brides à veaux, which literally means “calves’ halters” and figuratively, according to Randle Cotgrave, “fopperies, gulleries, grosse tricks, or lyes; vnlikely tales, or things”—the point being that calves do not wear halters.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983