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gnarlsome

adj

Etymology

Blend of gnarly + awesome.

  1. derived from *h₂egʰ-✻
  2. derived from *agaz✻ — “terror, dread”
  3. derived from agi
  4. inherited from aw
  5. suffixed as awesome — “awe + some”
  6. compounded as gnarlsome — “gnarly + awesome”

Definitions

  1. gnarly and awesome at the same time

    • 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 […].
    • 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.
    • Sure you are. Anyway, how goes your batch of the Simming? Mine is gnarlsome, raspulescent, grislesque.

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