Definitions For Snark

Etymology 1

Noun sense “snide remark” as (1906), from obsolete , snark, pos=v, gloss=to snore, snort (1866), from Middle English snarken, t=to snore. Compare , , , and , and snore.

Noun

SNARK (uncountable) snide, snide remarks. : Synonym: sarcasm

Related terms

snarkiness snarky

Verb

To express oneself in a snarky fashion. (obsolete) To snort.

Derived terms

snarker

Etymology 2

From Snark, as a word in (1874), about the quest for an elusive creature. In sense of “a type of mathematical graph”, named as such in 1976 by for their elusiveness.Martin Gardner, , , issue 234, volume 4, pp. 126–130, 1976.

Noun

SNARK (plural SNARKs) (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. (particle) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. :