different between gull vs con

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: g?l, IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English gulle, from Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *w?lann? (“seagull”). Cognate with Cornish guilan, Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan, Old Irish faílenn.

Noun

gull (plural gulls)

1. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.

Synonyms

• (seabird): mew, seamew, seagull

Derived terms

• Audouin's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)
• black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
• Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)
• Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans)
• common gull (Larus canus)
• Dominican gull (Larus dominicanus)
• flood gull (Rynchops nigra)
• Franklin's gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan)
• glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus)
• great black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
• gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
• gull chaser (Stercorarius pomarius)
• gullfeed (Scaevola plumieri)
• herring gull (Larus spp.)
• Iceland gull (Larus glaucoides)
• ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea)
• kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)
• lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus)
• land gull (Larus marinus)
• laughing gull (Xema ridibundus, Leucophaeus atricilla)
• little gull (Larus minutus)
• Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
• mew gull (Larus canus)
• Pacific gull (Larus pacificus)
• Pallas's gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)
• red-billed gull (Chroicocephalus scopulinus)
• ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis)
• Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea)
• Sabine's gull (Xema sabini)
• seagull (Laridae spp.)
• silver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae)
• slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
• slender-billed gull (Chroicocephalus genei)
• white-eyed gull (Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus)
• yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“swallow”).

Noun

gull (plural gulls)

1. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3

     BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.

2. One easily cheated; a dupe.
3. (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.

Synonyms

• (dupe): See also Thesaurus:dupe
• (swindler): See also Thesaurus:fraudster

Verb

gull (third-person singular simple present gulls, present participle gulling, simple past and past participle gulled)

1. To deceive or cheat.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.

   • 1660, John Dryden, Astraea Redux

     The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.

   • c. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wallenstein

     I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165

     […] speak your curses out

     Against me, who would sooner crush and grind

     A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress

     An innocent lady, gull an Emperor […]
2. (US, slang) To mislead.
3. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

Synonyms

• (to deceive): See also Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

• gullcatcher
• gullible
• gullibility

Translations

References

Further reading

• gull on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Larus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?tl/

Noun

gull n (genitive singular guls, uncountable)

1. gold
2. (in proverbs) richness, money, livestock
3. gold medal, first place (sports, etc.)

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gull (“gold”), from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?tl/
• Rhymes: -?tl

Noun

gull n (genitive singular gulls, nominative plural gull)

1. (uncountable) gold (chemical element)
2. (countable) a cherished thing
3. (countable) a gold medal or prize

Declension

Derived terms

• ekki er allt gull sem glóir
• glópagull
• gull af manni
• morgunstund gefur gull í mund

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/

Noun

gull n (definite singular gullet, uncountable)

1. gold

Derived terms

Related terms

• forgylle, forgylt

References

• “gull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gull and goll, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?. Akin to English gold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?/

Noun

gull n (definite singular gullet, uncountable)

1. gold

Derived terms

References

• “gull” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• goll

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gulþ? (“gold”). Cognate with Old English gold, Old Frisian gold, Old Saxon gold, Old Dutch golt, Old High German gold, Gothic ???????????????? (gulþ). See also Finnish kulta. Ultimately from Pre-Germanic *??l?tóm (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /??ul?/

Noun

gull n (genitive gulls, plural gull)

1. (uncountable, singular only) gold
   • Laurentius saga 65, in 1858, Jón_Sigurðsson, Guðbrandur_Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 877:

     Vér viljum ok gefa þér gull vort, […]

     We also want to give you our gold, […]

2. (countable) a jewel, thing of value, especially a finger-ring
   • Stjórn 78, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 254:

     Enn þegar sem hon bar þetta gull, […]

     But when she wore that ring, […]

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• gull in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gull in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• gull in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• guld (modern form)

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Noun

gull n

1. (poetic, archaic) gold

   Har du silver har du gull, / har du kistorna full?

   Do you have silver and gold, / are your treasure chests full? (song lyrics)

   Wilt thw wara tik sielffuir hull, / tw älska friiheet meer än gull (Old Swedish, poem by bishop Tomas, 1439)

   Vill du vara dig själver huld, / du älska frihet mer än guld (translated to standard Swedish)

   If you want to help yourself, you should love freedom more than gold

2. (colloquial) baby, darling, someone dear and cute (gullig), someone to cuddle (gulla med)

   mina små gull

   my little darlings

   Kom nu gullet, det är finfint väder ute

   Come on baby, it's a perfect sunny day

Usage notes

• The form gull is archaic or poetic outside compound words and fixed expressions, where it has taken the sense of beloved or favorable as in gullgosse (“golden boy”), gullegris (“darling, pet”), gullunge (“beloved child”), etc.

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse gull, goll, from Proto-Germanic *gulþ?.

Noun

gull n (definite gullä)

1. (uncountable) gold

Derived terms

• gullfinger
• gullskre
• gulltypp
• gyllerfeinger

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n/
• (General American) enPR: k?n, IPA^(key): /k?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: conn; (General American) Khan

Etymology 1

From Middle English connen, from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), from Proto-Germanic *kunnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *?neh?- (whence know). Doublet of can.

Verb

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (rare) To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3:

     For Cassius is aweary of the world;

     Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;

     Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,

     Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote,

     To cast into my teeth.

   • 1807, William Wordsworth, Poems, "Resolution and Independence" (composed 1802):

     At length, himself unsettling, he the pond

     Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look

     Upon the muddy water, which he conned,

     As if he had been reading in a book

   • 1795 Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made upon him and his Pension, in the House of Lords, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Session of Parliament:

     I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 21:

     During these delectable entertainments, Miss Wirt and the chaperon sate by, and conned over the peerage, and talked about the nobility.

   • 1963, D'Arcy Niland, Dadda jumped over two elephants: short stories:

     The hawk rested on a crag of the gorge and conned the terrain with a fierce and frowning eye.

2. (rare, obsolete) To know, understand, acknowledge.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Iune:

     Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill

Related terms

• cunning
• ken
• unconned

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of Latin contra (“against”).

Noun

con (plural cons)

1. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).

   pros and cons

2. (abbreviation) conservative

   own the cons

Synonyms

• disadvantage

Antonyms

• pro

Related terms

• pros and cons

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of convict.

Noun

con (plural cons)

1. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.

Translations

Etymology 4

From con trick, shortened from confidence trick.

Noun

con (plural cons)

1. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deception

Translations

Verb

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.

Synonyms

• (to be conned): be sold a pup (idiomatic, British, Australian)

Translations

Related terms

Etymology 5

From earlier cond; see conn.

Verb

con (third-person singular simple present cons, present participle conning, simple past and past participle conned)

1. Alternative form of conn (“direct a ship”)

Noun

con (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”)

Etymology 6

Clipping of convention or conference.

Noun

con (plural cons)

1. (informal) An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

   • I can't speak for Faye as ed of FHAPA, but it would be really swell of someone could send us a set of Intersection daily newszines, plus any con flyers or other fannish papers that were there to had for the picking up: fannish things, you know, not including media, gaming, filking or costuming, fine fun but not my cup of blog, thank you.

Etymology 7

Clipping of conversion.

Noun

con (plural cons)

1. (informal) The conversion of part of a building.

   We're getting a loft con done next year.

Etymology 8

Clipping of consumption.

Noun

con (uncountable)

1. (informal, obsolete) Consumption; pulmonary tuberculosis.

See also

• cone
• mod cons

Anagrams

• CNO, NCO, NOC, OCN, ONC, onc

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

1. with

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

1. with

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin conus.

Noun

con m (plural cons)

1. cone

Related terms

• cònic

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin cum

Preposition

con

1. with

Etymology 2

From Latin cunnus.

Noun

con m

1. (vulgar) vulva, cunt

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm.

Preposition

con

1. with

Antonyms

• sin

French

Etymology

From Latin cunnus, probably ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/

Noun

con m (plural cons, feminine conne)

1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy
2. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole, fucktard, cunt, retard (stupid person)

Adjective

con (feminine singular conne, masculine plural cons, feminine plural connes)

1. (slang, vulgar) stupid

Derived terms

Further reading

• “con” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• onc

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese con, from Latin cum (“with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k??]

Preposition

con

1. with

Antonyms

• sen

Derived terms

• coa, coas
• co, cos
• cun, cuns
• cunha, cunhas

Conjunction

con

1. and

Etymology 2

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as cauno, with a derived cauneto, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *akaunon (“stone”) rather than from Latin c?nus, which should have originated a word with a closed stressed vowel.

Alternative forms

• co

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??/

Noun

con m (plural cons)

1. boulder, specially those found semi-submerged at the seashore

   Synonyms: laxe, petón

Derived terms

• Con
• Coedo

Related terms

• coio
• coído

References

• “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “caun” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “con” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “con” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “con” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?/

Noun

con m sg

1. genitive singular of cú

Mutation

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon/

Preposition

con

1. with, together
2. (rowing) coxed

Usage notes

• When followed by the definite article, con may be combined with the article to produce the following combined forms (marking these combined forms in writing is old-fashioned, and very rarely used apart from col and coi; however, it has always been very common in speech, and it still is):

Antonyms

• senza

Ladin

Alternative forms

• cun (Gherdëina, Badia)

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

con

1. with

   Antonyms: zenza, zënza

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin cum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?/

Preposition

con

1. with

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon/

Noun

con m

1. genitive singular/dual/plural of cú

Mutation

Muong

Alternative forms

• còn (tone sandhi)

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k??n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun or *ku?n. Cognates include Old Mon kon, Khmer ??? (koun), Bahnar kon, Vietnamese con.

Noun

con

1. child

Classifier

con

1. Indicates animals (including the human)

References

• Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06) Tìm hi?u v? ng? pháp ti?ng M??ng (Thim hi?u wuê ng? pháp thi?ng M??ng) [Understanding Muong grammar]?^[3] (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh S?n–Phú Th? Province Continuing Education Center

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin cunnus.

Noun

con m (oblique plural cons, nominative singular cons, nominative plural con)

1. (vulgar) cunt (human female genitalia)

See also

• landie

Descendants

• French: con

Etymology 2

See conme.

Conjunction

con

1. Alternative form of conme

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon/

Noun

con m

1. genitive singular/dual/plural of cú

Mutation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cum, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kõ/

Preposition

con

1. with

Descendants

• Fala: con
• Galician: con
• Portuguese: com

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cum.

Preposition

con

1. with

Descendants

• Ladino: kon
• Spanish: con

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”), from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon/, [kõn]
• Rhymes: -on

Preposition

con

1. with
2. on

Derived terms

Antonyms

• sin

See also

• conmigo
• consigo
• contigo

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k??n, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *ku?n. Cognate with Muong còn, Thavung ???, Mon ????? (kon), Khmer ??? (koun), Bahnar kon, Khasi khun, Central Nicobarese k?an. For semantic relations, compare Chinese ? (“child; small thing; son”), Japanese ? (shi, ko, “child; small thing; son; boy; girl”). See also non (“young, juvenile”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [k?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [k????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [k????]

Noun

(classifier ??a) con • (????, ?)

1. a child (daughter or son)
2. (rare, chiefly in translations of ancient texts) a son

   Antonym: con gái

Derived terms

Noun

con • (????, ?)

1. (rare, only in compounds) a small thing

Derived terms

See also

• t?

Pronoun

con • (????, ?)

1. I/me, your child
2. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) I/me, someone a lot younger than you
3. you, my child
4. (familiar or dialectal, chiefly Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam) you, someone a lot younger than me

Usage notes

• Sense (4) is chiefly used in central and southern Vietnam, perhaps extensively to northern-central Vietnam. In northern Vietnam, cháu is used instead. Some northerners, however, do use con, especially when talking to southern children on southern TV shows.

Synonyms

• (you (4)): cháu

Classifier

con

1. Indicates animals (including humans).
2. (disrepectful) Indicates female people.

   Antonym: th?ng

3. Indicates knives, ships, boats, trains and irises.

4. Indicates roads, rivers, streams and waves.

5. (somewhat literary) Indicates written characters.

6. (colloquial) Indicates wheeled vehicles.

7. (colloquial) Indicates video games and movies.

Usage notes

• Even though con ng??i is used, it is generally thought of as a noun phrase on its own, and ng??i does not require a classifier because it is itself a classifier (compare Japanese ? (nin)). M?t con ng??i "a person" does not sound dehumanizing, but literary even, while m?t ng??i sounds casual enough.
• The phrase con ng??i is popularly employed as a philosophical trope or device to bring up discussions about what it means to be human as opposed to being an animal, even though it is not really semantically convincing given the fact that humans are, zoologically, animals, and there are non-animal things going with this classifier.

Derived terms

See also

• cái

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (jân).

Noun

con ?

1. soul