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gurlier

gurlier is the comparative form of gurly.

Meaning of gurly

Adjective

gurly (comparative more gurly, superlative most gurly)

  1. (Scotland) Fierce and stormy.
    • a gurly wind
  2. (Scotland) Unfriendly, irritable, surly.
    • "Damn the gurly brute!" Postie complained once; "when I passed a pleasand remark about the weather the other morning, he just looked at me and blew the reek of his pipe in my face. And that was his only answer!"1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 325

Questions about gurlier

What is gurlier the comparative form of?
Gurlier is the comparative form of gurly.

Words near gurlier in the dictionary

  1. gurl
  2. gurled
  3. gurlet
  4. gurlets
  5. Gurley
  6. gurlier
  7. gurliest
  8. gurling
  9. gurls
  10. gurly
  11. Gurma

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