A man, in half-bared arms dotted about the wrists with remnants of what they call gurry-sores, stood at the water's edge, waiting to lend a hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweetapple Cove] Reference

A thick blanket of grease and dust--what her mother used to call "gurry"--coats the appliances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-27] Reference

Still sooner or later the humane thing to do is just fillet them and throw the rack in the gurry bin and move on ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Cheney criticizes Sarah Palin for suggesting a ‘war on Iran’ could win Obama reelection.] Reference

They, hearing the noise ran away as fast as they could drive, and when they ran away in haste, they would cry, gurry, gurry, speaking deep in the throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference

"Can't keep a good boy like this pawing around in fish gurry," stated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

The Supreme Court agreed with me. furry gurry wrote: This isn't about censorship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

No sooner did they hear the noise than they ran away as fast as they could, crying out, "gurry, gurry!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference

"Come aboard and have a cigar, and this time I'll keep the conversation on fish-scales and gurry-butts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference

They can come home all over gurry, but she's got to have on a clean apron an 'her hair slicked up to the nines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bachelor's Fancy] Reference

"'Cause you've jest the same ez lee-bowed him, an 'he don't take that from any boat, not to speak o' sech a driftin 'gurry-butt as you be.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains Courageous] Reference

His father was a terrible governor and now we have to put up with the son!!! furry gurry wrote: chris. [email protected] email him there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

They are the ones with the clear-thinking minds, right? furry gurry wrote: We should keep it illegal and let all patients get it on the black market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

As such they were put to all sorts of tasks, work that usually found them at the day's end weary, dirty with fish scales and gurry, and more than a little disgusted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burned Bridges] Reference

I like to have mud on them about the consistency of gurry -- that is, not too wet -- because then it will all drip off on the way upstairs, and not so dry that it scrapes off on the carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Conquers All] Reference

Lastly, it appears they failed to control for time of day, adverse driving conditions and other factors. furry gurry wrote: Prohibition on the basis of morality is not the policy of a free country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut (s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference

There were sou'westers, and tarpaulins, and skull-caps; frieze jackets, and overalls, and hickory shirts; tarpaulin coats, and heavy sea-boots, and duck blouses with old bunches of oakum sticking out of the pockets; there were coils of rope-yarn well tarred, and jack-knives in leather cases, still black with whale-gurry: and a few telescopes and log-glasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

If this wasn’t so funny I would throw it in the gurry bin ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.] Reference

A "blooded Banker"; the affliction of gurry-sores being the mark of the caste that claimed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains Courageous] Reference

"There's more underhand, sneakin 'lies about you goin' around this flat-bottomed, leaky, gurry-and-bilgewater tub of a town than there is fiddlers in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

Elkanah, soberly, looking the old fellow in the face, -- "goin 'down to the Banks year arter year in cold an' fish-gurry, an 'peggin' away all winter, like mad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

They keep on coming with infected gurry sores as if arms could be saved after they've nearly rotted away, and send for me to see the dying, as if I could raise them from their beds. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweetapple Cove] Reference

Boils — gurry sores — blains — all the plagues of Egypt. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

"All gurry, and wet as sop?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference

Hence her despotic sway extended over the pantry, an awful and fragrant sanctuary, whither she fled when household troubles, or a letter from Elkanah, demanded her entire seclusion from the outer world, and of whose interior the children got faint glimpses and sniffs only on special and long-remembered occasions; the west room, where her father slept when he was at home, and where the curious searcher might find store of old compasses, worn-out cod-hooks, condemned gurry-knives, and last year's fishing-mittens, all "stowed away against time-o'-need"; the spare room, sacred to the rites of hospitality; the "up-stairs," occupied by the children and Hepsy Ann's self; and finally, but most important of all, the parlor, a mysterious and hermetically sealed apartment, which almost seemed to me an unconsecrated spot in this little temple of the homely virtues and affections, -- a room furnished in a style somewhat ostentatious and decidedly uncomfortable, swept and dusted on Saturday afternoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference