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From surly + -ing? Related to surly.
Noun
surling (plural surlings)
- (obsolete) A sour, morose fellow.
1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, , London: G E for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:And as for theſe ſowr ſurlings, they are to be commended to Sieur Gaulard
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