gnarly

4 definitions found

gnarly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

gnarly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

gnarly - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

gnarly - 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.