Gnarly

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  gnarly
       adj : used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
             knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
             [syn: {gnarled}, {knotted}, {knotty}, {knobbed}]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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)