snark

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: snärk, IPA(key): /snɑː(ɹ)k/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)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”), 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. ==== Noun ==== snark (uncountable) an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm. Synonyms: sarcasm, snideness ===== Derived terms ===== ===== 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 ===== snarkasm 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) (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search. (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. (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== See also ===== (unreplicable result): replication crisis === Further reading === snark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Snark (Lewis Carroll) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “snark”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “snark”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === References === === Anagrams === ARNKs, Karns, Kršan, Kṛṣṇa, karns, knars, krans, narks, ranks, skarn == Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /stnar̥k/ Rhymes: -ar̥k === Noun === snark n (genitive singular snarks, no plural) crackle (of a fire) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== snarka (“to crackle”) == Swedish == === Etymology === Deverbal from snarka. === Interjection === snark zzz (representing a snoring sound) Synonym: (in writing) zzz (slang) An expression of boredom Synonym: (in writing) zzz Snark! ― Boring! === Noun === snark n the act of snoring, and the noise produced Synonym: snarkande ==== Declension ==== === Derived terms === snarkofag === Related terms === snarka (“to snore”) === References === “snark”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “snark”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)