Snarl vs Yarr - What's the difference?
snarl | yarr |
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
(archaic) To growl or snarl like a dog.
* 1921 , Chamber's Journal
* François Rabelais (in translation), Gargantua and Pantagruel
As verbs the difference between snarl and yarr
is that 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 while yarr is (archaic) to growl or snarl like a dog.As a noun snarl
is a knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.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.
Antonyms
* unsnarlExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----yarr
English
Verb
(en verb)- She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.
- And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed