1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Cash Money Content (2011), →ISBN, page 43:
She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
1977, Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, Holloway House (1987), →ISBN, page 175:
Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl.
1980, James V. Spotts & Franklin C. Shontz, Cocaine Users: A Representative Case Approach, Free Press (1980), page 413:
I never had convulsions. It happened to me snorting girl though. No, I got a couple of "burns," that's all. Not for me. I was never allergic to anything. I have never had hepatitis with girl.
2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press (2005), →ISBN, page 185:
After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl, Honey was zoned out. […] She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.
2012, Walter Dean Myers, All the Right Stuff, Harper Collins (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
“When they get sick enough, they start self-medicating—smoking dip and snorting girl—to make themselves feel better or at least helping them get through the day. That's folk medicine. The man calls it addiction. What you call it?”
1996, Teresa L. Ebert, Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire, and Labor in Late Capitalism, University of Michigan Press (→ISBN), page 220:
[...] the exploitation and murdering of hundreds of thousands of economically devalured girled bodies.
1993, Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "sex", Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 7:
... and in that naming, the girl is "girled," brought into the domain of language and kinship through the interpellation of gender. But that "girling" of the girl does not end there; on the contrary, that founding interpellation is reiterated ...
2008, Diane Rubenstein, This Is Not a President, page 269:
What underlines the two types of Hillary resignification—both demonization and girling—is the fixation on the assignment of social roles. Neither addresses the question of what is uncanny about the Clinton-Rodham relationship, which is not [...]
Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]
1961, The Georgia Review:
Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ...
1962, The Electrical Workers' Journal:
The Coke wagon was "girled" by the two standbys, Sandra Arrants and Linda Yates.
1986, Marcus Cunliffe, The Literature of the United States, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books (→ISBN):
She and her Altrurian diplomat husband, arriving there by sea, are greeted by flower-laden boats, each not manned, but girled by six rowers, who pulled as true a stroke as I ever saw.
2009, Linda Howard, Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN), page 220:
To her disappointment, the chatty Carlene DuBois wasn't behind the desk; instead it was manned—or girled—by a frothy little blonde who barely looked old enough to be out of high school.
2017, Frederic Wakeman, A Free Agent, Pickle Partners Publishing (→ISBN)
I was knocked out, fed up, partied and girled half to death. The room was freezing cold. I turned off the air conditioning and opened the window, hoping for a fresh morning breeze that wasn't there. I looked out over that hot, desperate, oil-happy ...
girl, girle, girrel; considered by the DSL to be a met. form of grill "to shudder with dread or horror, to shiver (as on hearing a grating sound)", from Old Scots gril "shiver or shudder", Middle English grillen "shudder, quake, be afraid" (also "be sorrowful", "enrage"), from Old English griellan, grillan "offend, annoy; gnash one's teeth at"
(intransitive) to thrill, shiver or shudder with fear or dread (or cold)
1820, James Hogg, Winter Evening Tales, I., 336:
Ye hae gart a' my flesh girrel, John.
1820, James Hogg, Winter Evening Tales, II., 64:
It's no deth it feers me, but the after-kum garis my hert girle.
1927, Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), The Lucky Bag, 6:
Wi' the jow o' the tide / The toom houk dirls / And the lady Mune lookin' / Scunners and girles.
to shudder or grate; to make a shuddering or grating noise
1894, Ian Maclaren (John Watson), Bonnie Brier Bush, page 222:
Juist like the thrashing mill at Drumsheugh scraiking and girling till it's fairly aff.
(of the teeth) to be on edge, as when having bit into an acidic or unripe fruit; to tingle unpleasantly, as when hearing a harsh/grating noise
1923, George Watson, The Roxburghshire Word-Book:
That chairkin' skeelie gars iz girl.
1926, E. C. Smith, Mang Howes and Knowes, 4:
A duist hyit jairgin things, an that menseless road-injin fair garrd mei girrl!
