Etymology

g'hal

Today it means: A rough-and-tumble working-class young woman in Lower Manhattan between the late 1840s and the American Civil War period. Full definition →

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The story

Supposed to evoke an Irish pronunciation of girl or gal.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.