Topics: wealth, work. Shawn Johnson, 2008 gold-medal Olympic gymnast and pint-sized jailbait, will be taking home a whopping paycheck of zero from the U.S. Olympic Committee this year.The same goes for swimming sensation Michael Phelps, beach volleyball vixens Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, and fencing champ Mariel Zagunis.ategory: Money. Shawn Johnson, 2008 gold-medal Olympic gymnast and pint-sized jailbait, will be taking home a whopping paycheck of zero from the U.S. Olympic Committee this year.
gnarled adjective. âº ârough and âtwisted, âespecially because of âold âage or no âprotection from âbad âweather: a gnarled âtree âtrunk The âold man âdrew a âlong, gnarled âfinger âacross his âthroat. (Definition of gnarled from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.
The most common use of gnarly is to mean bumpy or twisted, and it is used in more formal language, to talk about parts of trees: trunks, branches, vines; and to talk about body parts: hands, fingers, feet, toes, etc. She was holding a red apple in her gnarly fingers. It is used as slang.