(n.) A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry, ordered by Tim Farron, the party's president, and being overseen by James Gurling, the chairman of the communications sub-committee of the party's federal executive, will see an interim report go to a meeting of the executive next week and a final report is expected to be published before party conference.
(2) To see why fans love Allen , you only have to scan the comments posted on websites listing her lyrics: "Lily is the most funniest, realest gurl," or "Her songs are so True and Fun!".
Guru
Definition:
(n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.
Example Sentences:
(1) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(2) Senior figures including Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister; Lord Glasman, a policy guru; David Blunkett, a former home secretary; andDarling, a former chancellor, have signalled they would like to see Labour setting out its message more clearly.
(3) But it was his Olympics win – Freud Communications was appointed as the lead agency in promoting the 2012 games – that prompts the PR guru's rise up this year's MediaGuardian 100.
(4) But his intervention comes at a sensitive time for Ed Miliband , who was accused yesterday by his intellectual guru Lord Glasman of lacking a strategy, as members of the shadow cabinet express concern about the party's apparent lack of credibility on the economy.
(5) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(6) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
(7) The message from the now retired guru of the financial markets was that the speculators would have a field day.
(8) In an interview with Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, investment guru and chief of the Berkshire Hathaway investment company, said: "In terms of the loss from a transaction of that size, my guess is they pretty well worked out of it by now.
(9) The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford, the disgraced PR guru who was convicted in May of eight counts of indecent assaults on four women.
(10) The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, a memoir and political manual first published by Labour's focus group guru, Philip Gould, in 1998, is a book many Cameroons know well.
(11) The included Vladimir Bukovsky, a Soviet dissident who lives in Cambridge, whom Marina Litvinenko described as her husband’s “guru”.
(12) Going under the name Michael Green and casting himself as an internet marketing guru, Shapps in 2007 claimed audiences could "make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back" – if they spent $200 buying his bespoke software.
(13) The PR guru Max Clifford said he had been approached by dozens of celebrities from the 60s and 70s who are "frightened to death" that they will be implicated in the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal.
(14) Duddy promised to preserve the quality of the retailer, which was started in the 1960s by design guru Sir Terence Conran as an antidote to the austere furniture of postwar Britain.
(15) Suneel Singh, a guru in south Delhi, agreed that yoga did not belong to any one religion: “Is t’ai chi just Chinese?
(16) The remarks by Flight, an outspoken figure popular in Tory circles, echo an infamous warning 36 years ago by the late Sir Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher's intellectual guru.
(17) When I interviewed gourmet coffee guru Gwilym Davies three years ago, shortly before he took the World Barista Championship crown in the US, he told me that we were in the third wave of coffee.
(18) Echoing Alan Greenspan, his guru and former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he added: "The very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.
(19) She did ecstasy for the first time with, among others, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.
(20) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.