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snark

/snɑː(ɹ)k/

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What does snark mean?

noun

  1. an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
  2. (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.

verb

  1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
More meanings (6)

noun

  1. 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.
  2. A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
  3. Acronym of succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.

proper noun

  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

verb

  1. (obsolete) To snort.
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IPA pronunciation

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