Snark

Pronunciation

• enPR: snärk, IPA: /snɑː(r)k/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka,

Online Etymology Dictionary|snarky

and English snarl, snort, and snore. Noun sense of “snide remarks” derived from snarky (1906), from snark (v.) "to snort" (1866) by onomatopoiea.

Full definition of snark

Noun

1. Snide remarks.

Synonyms

• (snide comments) sarcasm

Related terms

• snarkiness
• snarky

Verb

1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion
• Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”
2. (obsolete) To snort.

Derived terms

• snarker

From Snark, coined by Lewis Carroll as a nonce word in 1874 The Hunting of the Snark, about the quest for an elusive creature. In sense of “a type of mathematical graph”, named as such in 1976 by Martin Gardner for their elusiveness.

Martin Gardner, Mathematical Games, Scientific American, issue 234, volume 4, pp. 126–130, 1976.

Noun

1. (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.
2. (particle) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.

Anagrams

• ARNKs, knars, Kṛṣṇa, narks, ranks, skarn