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gnarlsome en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of gnarly + awesome.

Meanings

1. (rare, slang) gnarly and awesome at the same time
   • Sure you are. Anyway, how goes your batch of the Simming? Mine is gnarlsome, raspulescent, grislesque. 2012, Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata:
   • When the winter swells roll across the Big O from our great white neighbor to the north, we receive some of the most gnarlsome wavage ever not to be seen […]. 1987, Surfer - Volume 28, Issues 1-6, page 34:
   • The Martin-Logan Sequal^([sic]) Series II loudspeakers come as close as anything I've heard to succeeding at the gnarlsome enterprise of fusing a cone woofer with an electrostatic panel. 1990, The Absolute Sound - Volume 15, Issues 64-66, page 64:

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