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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1884
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GNARL, v. To gnaw, worry (a bone), used fig. in quot. Also in Eng. dial.m.Lth. 1884 R. F. Hardy Glenairlie 49:
Favourite bones for Scottish theologians to gnarl over.
[Nonce conflation of gnaw or Narr and snarl.]
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