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.