gurl

plural gurls

1. alternativeinformalnonstandardpronunciation spellingAlternative form of girl.

   Gurl! How well we know that feeling.

   2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22

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   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.

   1920, Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail

   Damn white gurl Thought you was A1 Yet your existence a none

   2012, Krystina V, A Diva's love Affair, →ISBN, page 22

   All gurl's good fur—jist To dust an' sweep, an' scold, An' sew on buttons what yo mus't Sewin' on last week. Wush't Iwuz a boy!

   2013, Karen L. Kilcup, Angela Sorby, Over the River and Through the Wood, →ISBN

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

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   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.

   2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

present singular third person gurls · participle present gurling · participle past gurled · past gurled

1. IrelandScotlandTo growl or snarl.

   “Weel may ye mind, yon night sae black, Whan fearfu' winds loud gurled, And mony a lum dang down—and stack, Heigh i' the air up swirled, Alangst yon brae, ye clam, and stack,

   1845, Alexander Wilson, Poetical Works: With an Extended Memoir of His Life and Writings

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   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.

   1834, Samuel Lover, Legends and Stories of Ireland