gnar

[prettygoodword]

gnar or gnarr (NAHR) - v., to snarl, to growl.


Also, as noun, in extreme sports, snow or a wave or other thing that is gnarly, but that's unrelated. This gnar goes back to Old English gnyrran, though many dictionaries obscure this by claiming it's imitative -- though cognates in German and Dutch make it clear that, even if so, it's an old, old imitation.

---L.

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

Was a pirate the first example you imagined?

[prettygoodword]

No, feline.

[full_metal_ox]

Which makes even more sense (although there’s a possible Venn overlap: cf. Growltiger and his Siamese arch-nemeses.)