snark
snark Lexical Profile
snark Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Critical, sarcastic, or snide comments or attitude, often delivered with irreverent wit.
"The film critic's review was filled with entertaining snark rather than serious analysis."
An elusive, mysterious imaginary creature invented by Lewis Carroll, or by extension any endlessly pursued but unattainable goal.
"For decades, physicists viewed the unified field theory as a theoretical snark that remained just out of reach."
• verb
To make critical, sarcastic, or snide remarks.
"The panelists spent the entire broadcast snarking about the terrible fashion choices at the awards ceremony."
• Rhymes for snark
Word Origin & Etymology
Originally coined by Lewis Carroll in his 1876 nonsense poem "The Hunting of the Snark" as the name of an elusive imaginary creature; the modern sense of sarcastic or snide commentary developed in the 20th century as a back-formation from "snarky," which derives from dialectal English "snark" (to snort or find fault).