gull
Similarly, Sweet Tooth will subsidize passably right-thinking British writers under the guise of a grant from a fake foundation. Serena's "gull," as she guiltily thinks of him, is Tom Haley, an undiscovered novelist...
Gull, used to mean someone easily fooled, may come from the "fledgling bird" sense of the word and has been in use in English since the late 1500s.
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