different between gurney vs trolly

English

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)ni

Noun

gurney (plural gurneys)

1. (US) A stretcher having wheeled legs.

   Synonym: (Britain) trolley

   • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, paperback edition, page 22

     Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.

   • 2005, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Number 506: The Talk, Part 7

     I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

trolly (plural trollies)

1. Alternative form of trolley

Verb

trolly (third-person singular simple present trollies, present participle trollying, simple past and past participle trollied)

1. Alternative form of trolley

Etymology 2

Noun

trolly (plural trollies)

1. A suet dumpling.

Etymology 3

troll +? -y

Adjective

trolly (comparative more trolly, superlative most trolly)

1. (informal) Of, befitting, or characteristic of a troll.
   • 2014, Elizabeth DePoy, Stephen Gilson, Branding and Designing Disability: Reconceptualising Disability Studies

     The particular response of the kind of haters you mention surprised the hell outta me, because it's such trolly behavior.

   • 2018, Brandy Zadrozny, "Jacob Wohl, 20, far-right conspiracy theorist, gets a moment in spotlight with Mueller plot," NBC News

     But as a writer on conspiracy sites, with 178,000 Twitter followers along for the ride, Wohl also earned a place among President Donald Trump’s most ardent and trolly online defenders.