Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
- n. One who snarls metal.
Wiktionary
- n. literally one who snarls
- n. by extension a person with a disagreeable or antagonistic temperament
- n. One who uses a snarling iron.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
- n. One who makes use of a snarling iron.
Examples
“It may amuse some to find thingummy replaced by doodackie, to hear a sausage called a snarler or to hear he did his bun for ` he was angry '.”
“CRAMER: Because Washington has an idea about Bob Dole that he's some kind of snarler, that he's a grouch and a snarler and a bitter man.”
“The burly snarler from Croxteth is no longer a teenage prodigy.”
The Guardian: What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda?
“A black, red-tonged snarler that has the most annoying meaw. it lasts and lasts like a wining Edith Bunker in "All in the Family".”
“And we are more apt to be offended with a joke than a plain and scurrilous abuse; for we see the latter often slip from a man unwittingly in passion, but consider the former as a thing voluntary, proceeding from malice and ill-nature; and therefore we are generally more offended at a sharp jeerer than a whistling snarler.”
“GREENFIELD: No, I don't think anybody thought he was a snarler, Tucker.”
“CARLSON: But -- no, but Reagan was dismissed as a snarler, as an extremist, as a whacko.”
“A wolf, which he was anxious to put out of the way, he being a sad snarler, was the first animal which the young man Chappewee placed on the infant earth; but the weight of the creature was so great, that it began to sink upon one side, and was in danger of turning over.”
“But Lockhart was "more than a satirist and a snarler.”
“The scene between Colax and Dyscolus, the professional flatterer and the professional snarler, is really excellent: and others equally good might be picked out.”
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