Eat vs Snarf - What's the difference?
eat | snarf |
To ingest; to be ingested.
#(lb) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
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#*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat' parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they ' eat the luncheon crumbs.
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#(senseid) To consume a meal.
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# To be eaten.
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To use up.
#(lb) To destroy, consume, or use up.
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#*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
#*:His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
# To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
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#*(Bruce Willis) in the movie (The Last Boy Scout)
#*:No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
# To consume money or (other instruents of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
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#*From the movie
#*:Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
To cause (someone) to worry.
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To take the loss in a transaction.
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*From the movie (Midnight Run)
*:I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
(lb) To corrode or erode.
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To perform oral sex on someone.
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(slang) To eat or consume greedily.
*1999 : Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia , page 239
*2000 : Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child , page 40
*2003 : Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well , page 41
(slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
*1995 : Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture , page 296
*1996 : Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , page 399
*2001 : Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nicols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, Interacting at a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing , in Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 305-314.
(slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full.
(transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.
As verbs the difference between eat and snarf
is that eat is to ingest; to be ingested while snarf is to eat or consume greedily.eat
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Synonyms
* (consume) consume, swallow; see also * (cause to worry) bother, disturb, worry * (eat a meal) dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunchDerived terms
* don't shit where you eat * eater * eat crow * eatery, eaterie * eat humble pie * eat in * eating * eat into * eat like a bird * eat like a horse * eat like a pig * eat my shorts * eat one's hat * eat one's Wheaties * eat one's words * eat out * eat pussy * eats * eat shit and die * eat someone alive * eat someone's lunch * eat up * eatworthy * pie-eater * you are what you eat * what's eating you?See also
* drink * food * edibleStatistics
*snarf
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(en verb)- He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
- Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container
- "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
- The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.
- I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
- Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
- ... in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language
- Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation;
- It was so funny, I snarfed my milk onto my keyboard.
- I snarfed the whole database into my program.