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Dave Wilton

05 Feb 2025 • 7 min read
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7 October 2026 The history of gnarly is one of changing forms within English. The adjective gnarly appears in the mid nineteenth century with a sense of covered with protuberances, knotted, twisted. It was formed from the older gnarled, which dates to the early seventeenth century and which also came
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