cullion

[ kuhl-yuhn ]
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nounArchaic.
  1. a base or vile fellow.

Origin of cullion

1
1350–1400; Middle English culyon, coil(i)on<Anglo-French, Middle French coillon worthless fellow, literally, testicle <Vulgar Latin *cōleōnem, accusative of *cōleō, for Latin cōleī (plural) testicles, scrotum

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