gurly, a. Sc.
(ˈgɜːlɪ)
[f. gurl n. or v. + -y.]
1. Boisterous, stormy, rough.
| 1718 Ramsay Edinburgh's Addr. to Country 3 Bare fields and gurly skies Make rural scenes ungrateful to the eyes. a 1803 Sir P. Spens xiv. in Child Ballads (1885) II. 26/2 When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. 1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. ii. (1857) 27 When gurly breezes blow. 1882 G. Macdonald Castle Warlock xx. (1883) 122 It's a gurly nicht; no a pinch o' licht, an' the win' blawin' like deevils. 1893 Crockett Stickit Minister 125 It was gurly weather. |
2. Surly, cross, ill-humoured.
| 1721 Ramsay Cupid thrown into the South-Sea 13 The god look'd gurly. 1813 Hogg Queen's Wake 77 Gurly James, and his baronis braw. 1896 Stevenson Weir of Hermiston viii. 246 Ye'll have to look in the gurly face o'm. |