Grilf

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  grilf // n. Girlfriend. Like {newsfroup} and {filk}, a typo
     reincarnated as a new word. Seems to have originated sometime in 1992 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]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  grilf
       
          Girl-friend.
       
          Like {newsfroup} and {filk}, a typo incarnated as a new word.
          Seems to have originated sometime in 1992.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-01-31)