"gurly", 1652, antedates OED2 sense 2, 1721

[Joel S. Berson]

1652 November.

"The wife of Christopher Collins presented for railing at her husband
and calling him 'Gurley gutted divill.' Discharged."

[Apparently he was, since she got off.]

Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County,
Massachusetts. Ed. George Francis Dow.  Volume 1, 1636-1656 (1911), page 274.

antedates OED2 "gurly, a.", sense 2., "Surly, cross, ill-humoured", 1721-.

Joel

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