gnarlsome

English

Etymology

Blend of gnarly +‎ awesome.

Adjective

gnarlsome (comparative more gnarlsome, superlative most gnarlsome)

  1. (rare, slang) gnarly and awesome at the same time
    • 1987, Surfer - Volume 28, Issues 1-6, page 34:
      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 […] .
    • 1990, The Absolute Sound - Volume 15, Issues 64-66, page 64:
      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.
    • 2012, Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata:
      Sure you are. Anyway, how goes your batch of the Simming? Mine is gnarlsome, raspulescent, grislesque.
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