Snarf vs Snarl - What's the difference?
snarf | snarl |
(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.
A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
A growl, as of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds
To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
* Spenser
To embarrass; to ensnare.
* Latimer
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between snarf and snarl
is that snarf is to eat or consume greedily while snarl is to form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.As a noun snarl is
a knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.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.
snarl
English
(wikipedia snarl)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (entangled situation) imbroglioVerb
(en verb)- to snarl a skein of thread
- And from her back her garments she did tear, / And from her head oft rent her snarled hair
- [the] question that they would have snarled him with
- It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
