Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name given in “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” to an imaginary animal. See blend-word.
Wiktionary
- n. Snide remarks.
- v. To express oneself in a snarky fashion
- v. obsolete To snort.
- n. mathematics A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
- n. physics A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Etymologies
- Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, and English snarl, snort, and snore. Noun sense of “snide remarks” derived from snarky (1906). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I didn't realize the Constituion differentiated between "creative artists" and ordinary schlubs. * snark snark*”
“You quote me correctly to say, Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ...”
“Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess.”
“Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ...”
“I'm not even sure if the word "snark" had been coined yet, but that's what we were practicing.”
“Too bad snark is useless – if he was to propose actual solutions, his comments might have some validity.”
Pawlenty: With trigger, Dems 'will shoot themselves in the foot'
“But mindless snark is your First Amendment right and I stand with you against anyone who would take it away, despite laughing at your mindlessness.”
“You can follow her on twitter (@graylinfox) - caution - snark is usually a daily occurrence.”
“Check your unhealthy cynicism - healthy cynicism is called snark and is fun - and assumptions at the door.”
The Huffington Post: Bruce Reyes-Chow: How To Choose A Church
“Staash, do you really not see any relevant difference between one couple adopting a baby and a business, or do you just think this type of snark is a silver bullet against liberalism?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snark’.
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Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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Sound Effects You Didn't Know You Needed
Lesser-known onomatopoeias (or things that sound like they ought to be onomatopoeias but aren't), ripe for use in parodies of the Adam West Batman series.
gloomth, spilth, glunch, flub, spramp, sough, gorp, guff, tump, kerrang, bork, flan and 12 more...
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Phantasmas
Ouroboros, chimera, incubus, cerberus, hippogriff, leviathan, centaur, Jabberwock, numen, snark, sphinx, hippocamp and 26 more...
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onomatopoeic
warble, quibble, quirk, drudgery, chortle, snicker, galumph, thwart, schlock, whimsy, garble, miffed and 25 more...
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edward ryklin's list
viewy, kibosh, snark, rostrum, flummox, ossuary, cosset, cacography, grok, tonsorial, postprandial, eschatology and 7 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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lemongrass's Words
ineffable, diode, abraxas, neologism, algorithm, schadenfreude, heresiology, vague, cathartic, quixotic, apocrypha?, quintessence and 103 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
Tweets
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eggoabbas Besides the Alice in Wonderland definition, this word has also come to mean reflexive ridicule or criticism. David Denby wrote a widely reviewed book called "Snark" where it used in this sense. Jul 12, 2009
reesetee See also irony mark. Sep 30, 2008