surling
English
editEtymology
editThis etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. From surly + -ing? Related to surly.
Noun
editsurling (plural surlings)
- (obsolete) A sour, morose fellow.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- And as for theſe ſowr ſurlings, they are to be commended to Sieur Gaulard
References
edit- “surling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.