snark

Meanings

1. an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.

1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
2. To snort.

1. The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
2. 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.
3. A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.

1. A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.
2. A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark

1. Acronym of succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.

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.

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