snark

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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
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]].
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