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querl, n. U.S.|kwɜːl|
Also quirl.
[? var. of curl, or a. G. querl, quirl from MHG. twirl twirl.]
A curl, twist, twirl.
1854B. F. Taylor Jan. & June 23 [The grape vine's] aspirations were manifested in the display of divers mermaidish-looking ringlets, with two or three dainty ‘quirls’ therein. 1871L. M. Alcott Little Men v. 78 Sally, loading her pie with quirls and flourishes. 1880in Webster Suppl. 1883Cent. Mag. Dec. 201/1 The forms are grotesque beyond comparison: twists, querls, contortions. 1885Harper's Mag. LXX. 219 The crooks and querls of the branches on the floor. 1889R. T. Cooke Steadfast xv. 162 A hundred resolute little quirls above the low forehead. 1950Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xiv. 55 Quirl, a curl, as on a watermelon vine. A melon is supposed to be nice when the quirl is dead.
So querl, quirl v., to twirl, coil, etc. (Knowles, 1835); querled ppl. a., ˈquerling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1787Amer. Museum II. 571/1 She thought there was something alive in her side, for, to use her own expression, she plainly perceived a tickling and quirling in it. Ibid. 574/1 She next complained of a quirling pain, that would last three or four hours with the utmost violence. 1830Northern Watchman (Troy, N.Y.) 30 Nov. 3/5 We..come out of the plagid lock, wrong eend foremost, all quirled up in a h―l of a twist. 1840J. F. Cooper Pathfinder I. xiii. 206 One of his hands coiled a rope against the Sun, and he called it querling a rope, too, when I asked him what he was about. 1890Dialect Notes I. 75 ‘Quirled way up’... ‘Quirl, both noun and verb, is familiar to me.’ 1893H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 52 Quirl,..this word is largely used by negroes, and to some extent by white people, for curl. It is also thus used in New England. In Mississippi a snake is nearly always said to be quirled or quoiled up, instead of curled or coiled up. 1944Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. ii. 30 Quirl, to curl. ‘Does hit quirl like a pig's tail?’... Common. |