grilf

2 definitions found

grilf - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

grilf - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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]