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語源 1

First attested Shakespeare 1603:

Thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable [unwedgable] and gnarled Oke [oak].

Measure for Measure, Act II, scene ii, line 116

Variant of knurled, from knurl. By surface analysis, gnarl +‎ -ed, though gnarl is a later back-formation. Popular use by 19th century.

形容詞

gnarled (comparative more gnarled, superlative most gnarled)

1. Knotty and misshapen.
   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

   • 2026 March 27, The Monitor's Editorial Board, “When spring bursts forth with renewal”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     For students of history and culture, the cherry trees’ delicate flowers and gnarled trunks speak to the enduring soft power of global goodwill, culture, and faith in a better future to overcome division, including wartime enmity and destruction.

2. Made rough by age or hard work.

同意語

• gnarly

派生語

動詞

gnarled

1. simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1)

語源 2

See gnarl (Etymology 2).

動詞

gnarled

1. simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2)

参照

アナグラム

• Dangler, Glander, Le Grand, Legrand, dangler, rangled