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Snarfed vs Snarled - What's the difference?

snarfed | snarled |

As verbs the difference between snarfed and snarled

is that snarfed is past tense of snarf while snarled is past tense of snarl.

snarfed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (snarf)

    • snarf

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To eat or consume greedily.
    • He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!
  • *1999 : Marya Hornbacker, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia , page 239
    • Freed from the usual inhibitions, we get home and I snarf down pasta salad right out of the Tupperware container
  • *2000 : Nancy Woodruff, Someone Else's Child , page 40
    • "I'm not going to sit there while you two watch me snarf a whole pie by myself."
  • *2003 : Allen D. Berrien, Powerboat Care and Repair: How to Keep Your Outboard, Sterndrive, Or Gas-Inboard Boat Alive and Well , page 41
    • The old 40-horse models used to snarf up more fuel than today's 90-horse models.
  • (slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
    • I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.
  • *1995 : Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, ISA System Architecture , page 296
    • Either write-through or write-back policy caches may snarf the data that the bus master is writing to memory.
  • *1996 : Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , page 399
    • ... in addition, the embedding enables the designer to snarf features from the underlying language
  • *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.
    • Other future applications of the semantic snarfing idea might include classrooms, where students might snarf interesting pieces of content from the instructor's presentation;
  • (slang) To expel fluid or food through the mouth or nostrils accidentally, usually while attempting to stifle laughter with one's mouth full.
    • It was so funny, I snarfed my milk onto my keyboard.
  • (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirety; to copy as a whole.
    • I snarfed the whole database into my program.

    snarled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (snarl)

    • Anagrams

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    snarl

    English

    (wikipedia snarl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * (entangled situation) imbroglio

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • to snarl a skein of thread
  • * Spenser
    • And from her back her garments she did tear, / And from her head oft rent her snarled hair
  • To embarrass; to ensnare.
  • * Latimer
    • [the] question that they would have snarled him with
  • To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
  • To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
  • * Dryden
    • It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.

    Antonyms

    * unsnarl

    Related terms

    * ensnarl

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