"gurly" adj. 1652

Sat Nov 14 01:13:21 UTC 2009

Oops!  I didn't read the quotations, just the definition of the
sense!  (boisterous, rough).  Now if his first name had been "Boreas" ...

Joel

At 11/13/2009 07:38 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:55:32PM -0500, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > The wife of Christopher Collins presented for railing at her husband
> > and calling him "Gurley gutted divill."  Discharged.
> >
> > antedates OED2 "gurly" a. 1718- or perhaps 1721-, depending on which
> > sense this is assigned to.
>
>Sense a. has to do with the weather, so....
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED
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