CullyA fop, a fool, a dupe. A contracted form of cullion, a despicable creature (Italian, coglione). Shakespeare uses the word two or three times, as “Away, base cullions!” (2 Henry VI., i. 3), and again in Taming of the Shrew, iv. 2—“And makes a god of such a cullion.” (Compare GULL.) “You base cullion, you.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Cully from Infoplease:
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