Noun: guykerl
| Singular | guykerl |
| Plural | guykerls |
Sample Sentences
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He went up his hill for a large stone he knew would be sufficient, but as he was returning, staggering under the weight of the enormous boulder, his Guykerl saw him and cried out jeeringly. [1932, Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby, Shetland Traditional Lore, page 132:]
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The giantesses or guykerls seem to have survived their husbands for some considerable time, for they continued to play an active part in folklore. [1981, James R. Nicolson, Shetland Folklore, page 91:]
Nouns inflected like guykerl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From English gyre-carlin, from Old Norse gýgr (“ogress”) + English carline (“old woman”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
gýgr'.