See gnashy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1992, Car and Driver - Volume 38, page 72:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "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?",
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"ref": "1994 September 16, Barbara Haddad, “Level .vs. Magic Question”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2002 March 23, Bob Weigel, “FS:Big 'ol ampeg/no speakers”, in rec.music.makers.marketplace (Usenet):",
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