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snark
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: snärk, IPA(key): /sn??(?)k/
- Rhymes: -??(r)k
Etymology 1
Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English snarken (“to snore”). Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, and English snort, and snore.
Noun
snark (uncountable)
- Snide remarks or attitude.
- Synonyms: sarcasm, snideness
- 2010, David Denby, Snark, Pan Macmillan (?ISBN), page 4:
- Snark will get you any way it can, fore and aft, and to hell with consistency. In a media society, snark is an easy way of seeming smart. […] Snark doesn't create a new image, a new idea. It's parasitic, referential, insinuating.
Related terms
- snarkiness
- snarky
Verb
snark (third-person singular simple present snarks, present participle snarking, simple past and past participle snarked)
- To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
- (obsolete) To snort.
Derived terms
- snarker
Etymology 2
From Snark, coined by Lewis Carroll as a nonce word in The Hunting of the Snark (1874), 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.
Noun
snark (plural snarks)
- (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.
- (physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Further reading
- snark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Snark (Lewis Carroll) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “snark”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- snark at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
Anagrams
- ARNKs, Karns, Kršan, K???a, karns, knars, krans, narks, ranks, skarn
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stnar?k/
- Rhymes: -ar?k
Noun
snark n (genitive singular snarks, no plural)
- crackle (of a fire)
Declension
Related terms
- snarka (“to crackle”)
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From snórk. Cognate with Smalandian snarke m, Helsingian snárse, snarkse m, snarka f, Norwegian snerkje m.
Noun
snark m (nominative & accusative definite singular snarken)
- Skin, wrinkled skin-film which forms on porridge and gruel.
- Cream.
Alternative forms
- sn?rk
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sass
English
Etymology
Variant of sauce
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sæs/
- Rhymes: -æs
Noun
sass (uncountable)
- (US) Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
- (archaic) Vegetables used in making sauces.
Derived terms
- sassy
Translations
Verb
sass (third-person singular simple present sasses, present participle sassing, simple past and past participle sassed)
- (intransitive, US, informal) To talk, to talk back.
- 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
- “But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.”
- 1894, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
- (transitive, US, informal) To speak insolently to.
Translations
German
Verb
sass
- Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of saß.
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