Snarf vs Snark - What's the difference?
snarf | snark |
(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.
Snide remarks.
To express oneself in a snarky fashion
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 23, Dwight Garner, The Mahvelous and the Damned, New York Times
, passage=Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked , seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.” }}
(obsolete) To snort.
(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.
As verbs the difference between snarf and snark
is that snarf is to eat or consume greedily while snark is to express oneself in a snarky fashion.As a noun snark is
snide remarks.As a proper noun Snark is
a fictional animal in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark.snarf
English
Verb
(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.
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
(-)Synonyms
* (snide comments) sarcasmVerb
(en verb)citation
Derived terms
* snarkerEtymology 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)- Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks .
