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語源 1

Back-formation from gnarled.

名詞

gnarl (plural gnarls)

1. A knot in wood; a knurl or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.
2. Something resembling a knot in wood, such as in stone or limbs.

派生語

• gnarly, gnarley

動詞

gnarl (third-person singular simple present gnarls, present participle gnarling, simple past and past participle gnarled)

1. (transitive) To knot or twist something.

形容詞

gnarl

1. Gnarled, knotty, twisted.

語源 2

Onomatopoeic.

動詞

gnarl (third-person singular simple present gnarls, present participle gnarling, simple past and past participle gnarled)

1. (intransitive) To snarl or growl; to gnar.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.

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