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.
Charting the rise of shredding the gnar. The growing popularity of the word gnarly is evident if you query the Google Books Ngram Viewer. This fascinating tool charts the popularity of words and phrases in published books. The graphic below shows that the word âgnarlyâ exploded in popularity in the 1980s and beyond.