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shirl

UK/ʃɜːl/US/ʃɝl/

shirl is the archaic form of schorl.

Meaning of schorl

Noun

schorl (countable and uncountable, plural schorls)

  1. The most common variety of tourmaline.

Proper noun capitalized: Shirl

Shirl (plural Shirls)

  1. A short form of the female given name Shirley.
    • Roland Jakes trips over the doorway and makes his way to Luisa. “Uh, this seat free? Didn’t eat a bite this morning. Shirl’s left me. Again.”2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 113
  2. A surname.

Forms of shirl

Noun
pluralshirls
Proper noun
pluralShirls

Words that rhyme with shirl

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Questions about shirl

What does shirl mean?
Shirl means a short form of the female given name Shirley.
What is shirl the archaic form of?
Shirl is the archaic form of schorl.
What part of speech is shirl?
Shirl is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce shirl?
Shirl is pronounced /ʃɜːl/ (UK).

Words near shirl in the dictionary

  1. shirking
  2. shirkings
  3. shirks
  4. shirky
  5. Shirky principle
  6. shirl
  7. Shirland
  8. Shirland and Higham
  9. shirled
  10. Shirley
  11. Shirley card

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shirl (page history and authors); Shirl (page history and authors); schorl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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