snark

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Related terms 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: snärk, IPA: /snɑː(r)k/, SAMPA: /snA:(r)k/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia

snark (countable and uncountable; plural snarks)

1. (uncountable) Snide remarks.
2. (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.
3. (physics) 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.

[edit] Related terms

• snarkiness
• snarky

[edit] Verb

to snark (third-person singular simple present snarks, present participle snarking, simple past and past participle snarked)

1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion
   • 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, New York Times:

     Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”

[edit] Derived terms

• snarker

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aknrs
• ARNKs
• knars
• Kṛṣṇa
• narks
• ranks
• skarn