SNARK

Etymology

Proper noun

Snark

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

A ketch built by Jack London named after Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark

Anagrams

• ARNKs, Karns, Kršan, Kṛṣṇa, karns, knars, krans, narks, ranks, skarn

Etymology 1

Noun

snark (uncountable)

Snide remarks.

Synonym: sarcasm

Verb

snark (third-person singular simple present snarks, present participle snarking, simple past and past participle snarked)

To express oneself in a snarky fashion.

(obsolete) To snort.

Etymology 2

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.

Anagrams

• ARNKs, Karns, Kršan, Kṛṣṇa, karns, knars, krans, narks, ranks, skarn

Source: Wiktionary



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