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English Dictionary: gnarly by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gnarly
adj
  1. used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
    Synonym(s): gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gnarly \Gnarl"y\, a.
      Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   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)
  
  
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