snark

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 snärk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm. uncountable
    — Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm. Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack. Its subtle insult comprises a tone that acts as a weapon to cut its target down to size.
  2. The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search. literary
    — When the auctioneer had exhausted his vocabulary in describing the merits of an animal, his winding-up formula was "One times! two times! three times!" Then the hammer gave a tap, and he and our party would devote our energies to discovering the last bidder - a research which generally was as promising as the hunting of the snark.
  3. 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.
  4. A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. particle
    — Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.
动词 v.
  1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
    — Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”
  2. To snort. obsolete

词形变化

snarks present,singular,third-person snarking participle,present snarked participle,past snarked past snarks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
snarkasm snarker snark hunt snark-like

词源

词源 1
Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic.
词源 2
From Snark, coined by Lewis Carroll 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.
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