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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
gurry
 
SYLLABICATION: gur·ry
PRONUNCIATION:
   gûr , g r
NOUN: Fish offal.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally a whaling term for the refuse left over from processing whale
blubber, perhaps from dialectal gurry, diarrhea.
 
 
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