Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Slang To eat or drink rapidly or eagerly; devour: snarfed down some cookies.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To eat or consume greedily.
- v. transitive To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
- v. transitive To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full.
- v. transitive, computing To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make off with belongings of others
Etymologies
- Blend of snort and scarf? (Wiktionary)
- Probably sn(ort) + (sc)arf3. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Meg: the "snarf" character you're thinking of is Pinky from Pinky and the Brain/Animaniacs - the lab mice who wanted to take over the world..”
“I was originally thinking a Thundercat or that lil character from a TV show who's name I don't know that says "snarf" all the time.”
“You decide for yourself and while you may evangelize, other people still have the right to ignore you and snarf their gas station food.”
“I'd totally snarf Italian meatballs from a place called Saucy Balls.”
America's Next Great Restaurant: Will Joey Stick with Saucy Balls? Should He?
“Or the crab puffs that we snarf down, as Hal from HR recites the latest office policy on Instant Messaging.”
“According to the players themselves, "Blibber blabber snarf.”
“When he was senator, he watched the state snarf up billions in post 9/11 defense dollars, especially in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.”
“The CSS IS AWESOME mug is awesome -- until it makes you snarf coffee out your nostrils all over your keyboard.”
“Moreover, "all dogs explore with their mouths" so it's possible that even dogs not completely indiscriminate about the stuff they'll snarf up could surprise you and munch on some.”
“Just this morning I found myself going through the drive thru at McDonald's so my son could snarf down a sandwich in the two minutes we had left to get him to work.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snarf’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 253 more...
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Silly-sounding words
Serious words that sound silly when you say them
philosophunculist, argy-bargy, Labradoodle, shittah, shittim, floccinaucinihili..., succedaneum, honorificabilitud..., fag-ma-fuff, buffarilla, yazzihamper, mammothrept and 140 more...
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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Thievery
synonymous with steal.
pinch, lift, pilfer, appropriate, bilk, abscond, burgle, usurp, purloin, shoplift, bite, five finger discount and 38 more...
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[Open] Excellent Potential Cat Names
Please use the lowercase form of words that don’t usually appear as proper names (unless the word should be capitalized for other reasons). Words that are used primarily or exclusively as names (e...
domovoi, домово́й, Schroedinger, Feral, debulition, zenzizenzizenzic, Schrödinger, zenzizenzic, snarf, crepuscular ray, crepusculum, hell and 26 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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tessainlove's list
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snarf.
rhsatrhs Snarf: To forcefully eject liquid from one's nostrils, as may happen if one is made to laugh at an inopportune moment while in the act of drinking.
This usage goes back at least to the late 1970s, and is apparently still current since it appears in this tweet that was shown to me in the real time info:
# grabbyfingers: @robotwithdog Ha, yes, exactly. And thanks. It really hurts to snarf Diet Dr. Pepper ya know. I'm taking my burning nostrils to bed. Hmph. (7 hours ago) Jun 8, 2009
strev snarf back a rack o' ribs and slake it with a good lager. Apr 11, 2009
jonasword Adolescent slang- someone who farts in the bathtub and bites at the bubbles Apr 11, 2009