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[tomwaits]

Ive heard it used in several contexts. know?

Korea board is not a bastion of English grammar info (no offence) but thought some might be up on the slang. word.

[DrOctagon]

Cool

[Missihippi]

I most associate it with "surfer dude" talk and/or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "Gnarly duuuude"

[mole]

Word association. Not sure why this story stands out, though.

Before being abducted to Planet K, I was pretty normal, believe it or not.
I was a River Rat in TEXAS and spent every free moment on the river, mostly the San Marcos.
One day I was kayaking (Marlboro inflatable kayak) with my 4 year old son.

By the way, river rats tend to CONGREGATE. It took me a while in Korea to get over the fact that foreigners don't acknowledge each others' existence in public, unless at a bar, and then, only if formally introduced.

Anyway, there was this sweet countrified MILF with her kids playing with the biggest earthworm I'd ever seen face to face.
Sure, I'd seen bigger in fishing magazines and on TV.
I said, "That's a GNARLY worm!"
I'm no pretty boy, but I do exude the mojo, and that's all it took to strike up a little interchange.
Was progressing real smooth-like till her tweaker boyfriend/husband kind of entity started muscling in on my action.
That's the beauty of schm00zing. "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Sure.

It's what DIDN'T happen, though you shared a mojo-moment with thy neighbor's gal that's GNARLY, dude!

[Guri Guy]

gnarl⋅y   /ˈnɑrli/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [nahr-lee] Show IPA
�adjective, gnarl⋅i⋅er, gnarl⋅i⋅est. 1. gnarled.
2. Slang. distasteful; distressing; offensive; gross: a comic noted for his gnarly humor.
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Origin:
1820�30; gnarl 1 + -y 1

Related forms:

gnarl⋅i⋅ness, noun
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BookDepository.co.uk/Dict&LanguagesSponsored Resultsgnarl�y (n�r'lē) Pronunciation Key
adj.
Gnarled; misshapen.
Slang
Remarkable; outstanding.
Unpleasant; disgusting.


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Gnarly

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

Here's a story I've often told using this word.

When Wario (my kid, the teacher in ROK) was four we were at the beach one day. He's playing in a tidal pool and next thing I know he's screaming his bloody head off. He'd picked up a baby Portuguese Man-of-War and was being stung pretty badly as the little sucker had wrapped it's purple tentacles around his little fingers.

The lifeguard, an old Jamaican man, took control and dashed him back into the water to submerge the hand. The seawater helped to relax the beast while using his gnarly fingers to pull the tentacles away one by one. Not affecting him in the least.

This was at the time when McD's had a happy meal with blow up beach toys in it and one was a little sail boat. Wario's sobbing, "I thought it was a toy". And the flourescent pink and blues made it look like one too. We rushed him off to the clinic where they applied baking soda (wow) paste, but his hand and arm swelled up to his elbow and he couldn't move his fingers till the next day.

[Captain Corea]

I always thought that Gnarly was a twisted piece of wood (for example), while Narley was the slang for 'cool'.

Never actually thought about the spelling.

[Gimpokid]

My friend is into snowboarding and has often mentioned to me that he is going to "shred the gnar gnar" this weekend.

Hope that helps.

[John_ESL_White]

NOUN From skateboarding: if a ramp was gnarly, it was "hard" or "difficult". If a section of street was gnarly, it was dangerous and bad.

ADJ- if a trick someone "pulled" was gnarly", it was cool, awesome, really difficult--> so x-tra cool

If a chick was gnarly, she was "dangerous", had a disease, was ugly, etc...

varies.. but OG meaning was never cool as in, "hey Brad, that's a gnarly BMW you have there".

More like, "hey man, let's F'k up brad's new beamer. Yeah, that would be gnarly!"

[WoBW]

[John_ESL_White]

[CeleryMan]

Halitosis of the Korean kind?

[Mint]

Gnarly in skateboarding means something pulled off with finesse that would intimidate even the most stalwart initiate.

"Dude, drinking with Mr. Kim and then dancing with those 50 year old call girls in the 노래방 was so gnarly!"

[Rae]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gnarly