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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Slang Rudely sarcastic or disrespectful; snide.
  2. adj. Slang Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. informal Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation, often humorously.

Etymologies

  1. snark +‎ -y; 1906, as “irritable”, from 1866 snark ("to snort"), by (onomatopoeia). Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka. (Wiktionary)
  2. From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • jberkel (informal) Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation. Jul 27, 2009

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