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gurly

gurly adjective: fierce and stormy. Also the alternative form of girly.

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

Also used as

gurly is also the alternative form of girly.

Forms of gurly

comparativemore gurly
superlativemost gurly
comparativegurlier
superlativegurliest

Origin of gurly

From gurl (“to growl or snarl”) + -y.

Questions about gurly

What does gurly mean?
Gurly means fierce and stormy.
What part of speech is gurly?
Gurly is an adjective.

Words near gurly in the dictionary

  1. Gurley
  2. gurlier
  3. gurliest
  4. gurling
  5. gurls
  6. gurly
  7. Gurma
  8. Gurmukhi
  9. gurn
  10. Gurnah
  11. Gurnang

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