Gnashy
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Related to or typical of gnashing the teeth
- 2 grating and harsh
- 3 Characterized by grinding or gnashing.
"Deft and comfy, if gnashy of engine, the Prizm looks like an inspired sketch that somehow made it into metal and ought to be viewed as a traveling sculpture exhibit."
- 4 Unpleasant; tedious or undesirable. informal
"Even Hozomeen'll crack and fall apart, nothing lasts, it is only a faring-in-that-which-everything-is, a passing-through, that's what's going on, why ask questions or tear hair or weep, the burble blear purple Lear on his moor of woes he is only a gnashy old flap with winged whiskers beminded by a fool -- to be and not to be, that's what we are -- Does the Void take any part in life and death?"
Example
More examples"Deft and comfy, if gnashy of engine, the Prizm looks like an inspired sketch that somehow made it into metal and ought to be viewed as a traveling sculpture exhibit."
Etymology
From gnash + -y.
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