gnashy

comparative gnashier · superlative gnashiest

1. Related to or typical of gnashing the teeth.
2. Of a sound, grating and harsh.
3. Characterized by grinding or gnashing.

   When I'm anxious, me gullet gets gnashy.

   2017, Kara LaReau, The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina, →ISBN

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   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.

   1992, Car and Driver - Volume 38, page 72

   I wanted it, but my stomach was so gnashy I ended up taking a bite, walking out to the pool, and then returning for another.

   2015, Alysia Gray Painter, Fairwil, →ISBN

4. informalUnpleasant; tedious or undesirable.

   "Dreary to explain and word all that gnashy science into flowery bower chat," said Emul.

   1994, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Live Robots, page 260

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   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?

   1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

   What you SHOULD do (again, MHO) is decide _wear_ the big, gnashy treasure items of your world are (in this fabled armory; in that horde) and if the players WANT to tempt a near-total probability of death and _succeed(!)_ then let them HAVE the item(s).

   1994 September 16, Barbara Haddad, “Level .vs. Magic Question”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)

   But the grill has some gnashy areas and stuff. Needs someone who wants to restore it to original look or someone who likes old original well used amps. :-) ).

   2002 March 23, Bob Weigel, “FS:Big 'ol ampeg/no speakers”, in rec.music.makers.marketplace (Usenet)