gnarly

Adjective

Synonyms: gnarled knotted knotty knobbed

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots“gnarled and knotted hands”“a knobbed stick”Synonyms: gnarled knotted knotty knobbed

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Gnarly \Gnarl"y\, a. Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

gnarly

<jargon> /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)

The Jargon File

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.