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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (bird strike), especially a turbine engine.
Etymologies
- Blend of snot and garbage (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Behind a door marked FEATHER IDENTIFICATION LAB, Dr. Dove (yes, that's her real name) sorts through shredded feathers, bits of claws or beaks, and sometimes nothing but bird goo called "snarge" — all in an effort to discover, CSI-style, what types of birds crash into military and commercial airplanes.”
“Ms. Dove calls the morning delivery "snarge," a term of art that combines snot and garbage.”
“She calls the contents of her morning mail "snarge," a term that combines snot and garbage.”
“The lab's scientists have dubbed this bloody goo "snarge," and it is usually all that is left when bird meets plane.”
“Each day, the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Laboratory receives about a dozen packages from around the country, each containing tissue swabs of snarge for DNA analysis to identify the species of bird.”
“Divided into sections that cover such categories as evolution, insulation, flight and adornment, "Feathers" stretches from the ancient mists of the late Jurassic to the laboratories of today's Smithsonian Museum, where "snarge"—science slang for what's produced when a bird meets a plane—is analyzed for data.”
“* NPR had a story recently that totally reminded me of Bones and featured a word that needs to be on the show, even more than a follow-up mention of pornado - "snarge.”
Jamie Frevele: "Double Trouble" for Bones This Week: Two New Episodes
“How badly do I want to hear Tamara Taylor say, "Any word on the snarge?" and/or "There's human DNA in the snarge"?”
Jamie Frevele: "Double Trouble" for Bones This Week: Two New Episodes
“Her process involves comparing feathers to the Smithsonian samples and using DNA analysis to identify tissue samples or snarge (a term created from combining "snot" and "garbage").”
“On a recent tour of her facility, Dove, an easy-going "40-something" woman with blond hair and the accent of her native Fulks Run, Va., showed NEWSWEEK forensic evidence from Flight 1549, including a smelly tub of bagged up snarge and feathers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snarge’.
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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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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 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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derogatory terms I should use more often
assmarmot, scuzzbucket, scumbag, sleazebag, slimeball, swamp donkey, barathrum, cacafuego, clarty-paps, comprachico, ephemeromorph, creodont and 162 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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An Intermediate Course of Random Pala...
A third uncategorized list of words that catch my eye or fancy. Common or regional names and terms, names of foods and food preparation utensils, bird, plant and animal names, jargon words, and od...
lobscouse, skillygalee, skilly, skippaug, pauhagen, paughaden, poghaden, poggie, pog, skoodle, reef goose, reezle and 138 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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To Learn
paratonnerre, apophenia, aposiopesis, compline, rebarbatiive, comity, averruncate, apodictic, apophasis, farouche, accismus, abligurition and 157 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Hana's Vocab
ipseism, jape, raphe, mullions and tran..., Olbers' Paradox, Euclidian torus, relativity of sim..., Cerenkov radiation, tachyon, superluminal, hapax legomenon, damascene and 314 more...
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crystalsenterbrown's list
crepuscular, perspicacious, prestidigitation, prestidigitation, maudlin, pithy, agitprop, philistine, harridan, bon vivant, sub rosa, edacious and 35 more...
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the_word_is_what's list
Cool new words that I'm going to try to start using in my life.
inchoate, opprobrium, pleionosis, loquacious, trite, junta, loya jirga, somnambulant, bowdlerize, lexiphanicism, stultify, introuvable and 18 more...
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"Let's go strap on the ole air'chine ...
Aviation, especially aerobatic aviation, has been quite aptly described as the "most fun you can have with your clothes on". There are a ton of colorful and cryptolexical words that have evolved i...
magenta line, true virgins make..., black box, autopilot, spoilers, east is least and..., dead reckoning, whiz wheel, radome, squawk ident, iff-sif, fire handle and 66 more...
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Atypical
dodrantal, ampersand, desiderative, cynosure, sybaritic, orthogonal, lacuna, lunge, forfend, celerity, hebetudinous, torpid and 55 more...
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RyanMcIntyre's Words
parsimony, pathology, limn, hendecaphilia, dowser, sanguine, vernacular, synecdoche, bijou, bloviate, uxorial, ouroborus and 7 more...
Tweets
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man From Miracle on the Hudson: The Survivors of Flight 1549, by W. Prochnau and L. Parker, p. 34: "On Flight 1549, Smithsonian scientists concluded that the bird parts, known as snarge, removed from the engines, wings, and fuselage came overwhelmingly from Canada geese but also from ducks, doves, and various songbirds." Jun 21, 2010
hernesheir This word grates like a xyster on a shinbone, but I like it. Jan 17, 2009
reesetee Not to worry, skipvia. Been seeing photos like that everywhere since the plane in the Hudson the other day. It's an ongoing and serious problem, and thank heavens in this case everyone survived! :-) Wish I'd see a tad more sympathy for the birds involved, though. I'm sure they weren't thrilled about a mid-air encounter with a giant metal bird. :-( Jan 17, 2009
skipvia The remains of a bird that has struck an airplane. Heard today on All Things Considered during a discussion of the Hudson River US Airways jet ditching. Snarge is collected and carefully studied after impact in order to learn more about the bird and the nature of the accident.
Sorry for the unfortunate mental image, reesetee...
EDIT: An interesting pictorial on the topic from Wired. Jan 17, 2009
whichbe A person nobody likes; a total jerk. May 13, 2008