GURLY also GURLIE ADJ. 1. boisterous, stormy, rough ...1718 Sc. 2. surly, cross, crabbed, growly, ill-humoured, bad-tempered, sour-tempered ...1721 Sc. 3. of water: gurgling; of infants: gurgling, crowing ...1823 Sc, 4. of a tree: gnarled ...1837 Sc. ETYMOLOGY from gurl (n. a growl, boisterous or rough weather) or gurl (vb. to rumble, to growl) + -y FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1718 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...From me Edina, to the Brave and Fair, Health, Joy and Love, and Banishment of Care: Forasmuch as bare Fields and gurly Skies Make rural Scenes ungrateful to the Eyes; When Hyperborean Blasts confound the Plain, Driving, by Turns, light Snow and heavy Rain..." From: Edinburgh's Address to the Country, November, 1718 - Allan Ramsay
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