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[Snark]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [snärk] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] Noun sense “snide remark” as [en] (1906), from obsolete [en] (1866), from
[en], from [en], equivalent to [en]. Compare [nds], [frr], [sv], [de], and
[en] and [en].[1] Of [en] origin, but ultimately [en].
**** Noun
[-]
1. Snide remark s or attitude .
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | date=December 17, 2010 | author=David Denby | title=Snark | publisher=Pan Macmillan | isbn=9780330539517 | pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zu2r9QQzIEAC&lpg=PA82&dq=%22snark%22&hl=de&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=%22snark%22&f=false | page=4
|passage= SNARK will get you any way it can, fore and aft, and to hell with
consistency. In a media society, SNARK is an easy way of seeming smart.
[...] SNARK doesn't create a new image, a new idea. It's parasitic,
referential, insinuating.}}
1. * [en]
***** Related terms
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**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] To snort .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
[en] From [en], [en] as a [nonce] word in _[The Hunting of the Snark]_ (1874),
about the quest for an elusive creature. In sense of “a type of mathematical
graph”, named as such in 1976 by [Martin Gardner] for their elusiveness.[2]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem , used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search .
2. * [1=en]
3. * [1=en]
4. [en] A graph in which every node has three branch es, and the edge s cannot be coloured in fewer than four colour s without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point .
5. [en] A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment .
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** See also
- [unreplicable result] [en]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [Snark (Lewis Carroll)]
- [R:Lexico]
- [R:OneLook]
*** References
References:
[1]. [snarky]
[2]. Martin Gardner, (1976). [Mathematical Games] .. _[Scientific American]_ , volume 4, issue 234, pages 126–130.
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Icelandic
*** Pronunciation
- [is]
- [is]
*** Noun
[@@]
1. crackle [of a fire]
**** Declension
[n.sg]
**** Related terms
- [is]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
[sv].
*** Interjection
[sv]
1. zzz (representing a snoring sound)
2. [sv] [An expression of boredom]
*** Noun
[n]
1. the act of snoring , and the noise produced
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-n-zero]
*** Derived terms
- [sv]
*** Related terms
- [sv]
*** References
- [saob]
- [saol]