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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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gnarly
    adj 1: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
           knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
           [syn: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty,
           knobbed]


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 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.



The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

gnarly

    /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy.  "Yow! - the
   tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really
   gnarly!"  From a similar but less specific usage in surfer
   slang.

   [Jargon File]

   (1996-09-17)