EGAVE

snark

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
  2. verb To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
  3. verb To snort.
  4. noun The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun 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.

Similar words

snideness snipe snigger snickle snarl zing sneering sass snit snarl word

Often followed by

was and is international had in to has voyage

Word family

snarked snarking snarks

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