gurly

From gurl (“to growl or snarl”) +‎ -y.

gurly (comparative more gurly, superlative most gurly)

1. (Scotland) Fierce and stormy.

   a gurly wind

2. (Scotland) Unfriendly, irritable, surly.
   • 1901, George Douglas Brown, The House With the Green Shutters, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 325:

     "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!"

gurly (comparative gurlier, superlative gurliest)

1. Alternative form of girly
   • 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:

     The satanic manipulations of SAW and Carol their evil make-up woman (who'll make you wear horrible itchy and distinctly gurly gunk every time you go on TOTP!)

• “gurly”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “gurly”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “gurly adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• “gurly, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• lurgy