snark

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Definition of snark in English English dictionary

A fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark|The Hunting of the Snark]]

To express oneself in a snarky fashion

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.

To snort

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

Snide remarks

a fictional animal in Lewis Carrolls The Hunting of the Snark

Synonyms

sarcasm

Etymology

() thumb Coined by Lewis Carroll|Lewis Carroll]] as a nonce word in 1874 The Hunting of the Snark|The Hunting of the Snark]].