Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general term of contempt, a base, despicable person; a rascal; thus cullionly, despicable, rascally.

c.1550		T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Fi: Yet I aduyse the[e], thou Cullyon make hast.
1575		‘Mr. S’ Gammer Gurton’s Needle in Whitworth (1997) V ii: It was that crafty cullion Hodge.
1593		Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew IV ii: Such a one that leaves a gentleman, And makes a god of such a cullion.
1604		Marston Malcontent induction: Alexander was an ass to speak so well of a filthy cullion.
c.1629		R. Brome City Wit IV ii: Thou Cullion, could not thine own Cellar serve thee, but thou must be sneaking into Court Butteries?
1639		J. Taylor Juniper Lecture 94: I am married to a grumbling [...] Dunghill, a Cullion, a common Town Bull.
1691		‘A Letany’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 176: From a griping slavish Cullion, / From the Gout, and the Strangullion [...] Libera nos Domine.
1751		W. Kenrick Falstaff’s Wedding (1766) I x: Shall a chit, a cullion, a beardless boy, presume to advise Robert Shallow, Esq?
1822		(con. early 17C) W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II 9: A man must set a piece or two sometimes, or he would be held a cullionly niggard.
1850		E.V. Kenealy Goethe: a New Pantomime in Poetical Works 2 (1878) 337: Crackhemp, Cullion, Blabber, Boor, / Vile bog-trotter. Whipper-snapper / You're a pretty god, I’m sure .
1863		Newcastle Jrnl 2 Apr. 2/6: A fellow that marries for money is the most despicable ‘cullion’ that treads God’s earth.
1868		‘Parliamentary Vade Mecum’ in Sydney Punch 14 Mar. 8/1: Substantives [...] Cullion.