1. Rudely sarcastic or disrespectful; snide.
2. Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
[From dialectal snark, to nag, from snark, snork, to snore, snort, from Dutch and Low German snorken, of imitative origin.]
snark
i·ly adv.
i·ly adv.The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
adj
Informal unpleasant and scornful
[from sarcastic + nasty]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
From the Maui News Second Thoughts August 31st 2010 by
LYNNE HORNER
Here's what happened: Last night, I got happy with the scissors and gave myself a haircut. While I was watching television. No mirrors, no scissors intended for cutting hair were involved. Two glasses of red wine - you know, for the antioxidants - were.
"WHAT are you doing?" The Captain asked at the top of his voice, in the same tone he might use if I were stepping into a bathtub with a live toaster.
"Shearing a sheep? Driving a herd of cats? What does it look like I'm doing?" I said, going from zero to snarky in a nanosecond, and merrily snipping away with a pair of craft scissors.
"Stop! Make an appointment tomorrow and have it done right. It's going to look like rats had at you."
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