Gurl

//ɡɝl// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of girl. alt-of, alternative, informal, nonstandard, pronunciation-spelling

    "An' Lee went closer to where the gurl was waitin'. His party follered an' I follered too.... Jest whin the moosic sthopped an' the gurl looked up—thin she seen Lee."

  2. 2
    Term of address between cis gay men, transgender women, or drag queens.
  3. 3
    A trans girl or woman.

    "For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people."

Verb
  1. 1
    To growl or snarl. Ireland, Scotland

    "The poor little doctor, thus rudely and suddenly aroused from his tipsy sleep, looked excessively bewildered when he opened his eyes, and met the glare of ferocious delight that Darby Kelleher cast upon him, and he gurled out, “What's the matter?” as well as the grip of Darby's hand upon his throat would permit him."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant spelling of girl.

Etymology 2

From Middle English gurlen (“to growl, rumble”).

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