grilf

( //, n.)

   Girlfriend. Like {newsfroup} and {filk}, a typo reincarnated as a new
   word.  Seems  to  have  originated  sometime  in 1990 on {Usenet}. [A
   friend  tells  me  there  was a Lloyd Biggle SF novel Watchers Of The
   Dark,  in which alien species after species goes insane and begins to
   chant  "Grilf!  Grilf!". A human detective eventually determines that
   the  word  means  "Liar!"  I  hope  this  has  nothing to do with the
   popularity of the Usenet term. --ESR]

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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {cow orker}{filk}{newsfroup}{pr0n}{tyop}]