gnarled
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
动词 v.
- simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1)
- simple past and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2)
形容词 adj.
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Knotty and misshapen.
— 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.
- Made rough by age or hard work.
词形变化
词源
词源 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.
: 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.
词源 2
See gnarl (Etymology 2).
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