snark
Plural: snarks
Noun
- A mythical, elusive creature or a snide remark.
- Snide remarks or attitude.
- The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- 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.
- A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Verb
- To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
- To snort.
Examples
- Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.
- Playing ’SNARK’ scored surprisingly well, despite its fictional nature.
Origin / Etymology
Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic.
Scrabble Score: 9
snark: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsnark: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
snark: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
snark: valid Words With Friends Word