Search Result for "gnarly":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots;
- Example: "gnarled and knotted hands"
- Example: "a knobbed stick"
[syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gnarly \Gnarl"y\, a. Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained. [1913 Webster]Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003):
gnarly /nar'lee/, adj. Both obscure and hairy (sense 1). "Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang.
