different between gurl vs grrl

English

Etymology 1

Variant spelling of girl.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l/, /???(?)l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)l
• Homophone: girl

Noun

gurl (plural gurls)

1. (informal, nonstandard or eye dialect) Alternative form of girl.
2. (LGBT slang) Term of address between gay men or transgender women.
3. (LGBT) A trans girl or woman.
   • 2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

     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.

See also

• girl
• boi

Etymology 2

Verb

gurl (third-person singular simple present gurls, present participle gurling, simple past and past participle gurled)

1. (Scotland, Ireland) To growl or snarl.

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Etymology

From Middle English gurle.

Noun

gurl (plural gurlès)

1. girl

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Noun

grrl (plural grrls)

1. Alternative form of grrrl