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snack | snark |

As a noun snack

is snack (a light meal).

As a proper noun snark is

a fictional animal in '' ''(the hunting of the snark) .

snack

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light meal.
  • An item of food eaten between meals.
    • Derived terms
    * snack bar * snack food * snacker * snackette * snackery * snackless * snacky
    See also
    * munchies

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat a light meal
  • to eat between meals
    • Derived terms
    * snack down

    Etymology 2

    See snatch (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks ."
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    snark

    English

    Etymology 1

    Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, and English snort, and snore. Noun sense of “snide remarks” derived from snarky (1906), from snark (v.) "to snort" (1866) by onomatopoiea. (en)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Snide remarks.
    • Synonyms
    * (snide comments) sarcasm
    Related terms
    * snarkiness * snarky

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To express oneself in a snarky fashion
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 23, Dwight Garner, The Mahvelous and the Damned, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked , seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.” }}
  • (obsolete) To snort.
    • Derived terms
    * snarker

    Etymology 2

    From (Snark), coined by (Lewis Carroll) as a nonce word in 1874 (The Hunting of the Snark), 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.Martin Gardner, (Mathematical Games), (Scientific American), issue 234, volume 4, pp. 126–130, 1976.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks .

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