Gullage, subs. (old colloquial).—The act of trickery; the state of being gulled.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, v., 5. Had you no quirk To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?
1611. Chapman, May Day, Act II., p. 284 (Plays, 1874). For procuring you the dear gullage of my sweetheart, Mistress Franceschina.
Gull-catcher (or Guller, Gull-sharper, etc.), subs. (old).—A trickster; a cheat. See Gull, senses 1 and 3.
1602. Shakspeare, Twelfth Night, ii., 5. Here comes my noble gull-catcher.
Gullery, subs. (old colloquial).—Dupery; fraud; a cheat’s device. Cf., Gullage.
1596. Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, iii., 2. Your Balsamum and your St. John’s wort are all mere gulleries and trash to it.
1608. John Day, Humour out of Breath, Act iv., Sc. 3. I am gulld, palpably gulld … and mine owne gullery grieves me not half so much as the Dukes displeasure.
1630. Taylor, Works. Neverthelesse, whosoever will but looke into the lying legend of golden gullery, there they shall finde that the poore seduced ignorant Romanists doe imitate all the idolatrous fornication of the heathen pagans and infidels.
1633. Ile of Guls. Upon you both, so, so, so, how greedily their inventions like beagles follow the sent of their owne gullery, yet these are no fooles, God forbid, not they.