| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | snark·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  snär k |
| ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: snark·i·er, snark·i·est
Slang Irritable or short-tempered; irascible. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin. | | OTHER FORMS: | snarki·ly —ADVERB
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