glark

English

Etymology

Slight variation of glork in the constructed sentence "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context" by David Moser. It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to glark because glork was already an established jargon term.

Pronunciation

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Verb

glark (third-person singular simple present glarks, present participle glarking, simple past and past participle glarked)

1. (slang, transitive) To guess (the meaning of an unfamiliar word) based on hearing its use in context.

References

• Douglas Hofstadter, "Metamagical Themas", Scientific American, January 1981