Linguistic question
Apr. 4th, 2003 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellinatorDoes anyone know where, when, or how the word "snarky" came about? I don't remember hearing it until just a very few years ago, and now it's everywhere. Especially if you're talking to me. ;)
I love the snark. The snark is good.
Because I can always tie something back to "Homicide: Life on the Street":
Kellerman: "You sure you want me with you?"
Bayliss: "Yeah, sure, why not?"
Kellerman: "I dunno, the last time we worked together you were kinda...snarky."
Bayliss: "Snarky?"
Kellerman: "Yeah, snarky, you know, from the ancient Greek, meaning 'butthead?'"
(hear it at http://www.schlock.net/hsounds.html)
I love the snark. The snark is good.
Because I can always tie something back to "Homicide: Life on the Street":
Kellerman: "You sure you want me with you?"
Bayliss: "Yeah, sure, why not?"
Kellerman: "I dunno, the last time we worked together you were kinda...snarky."
Bayliss: "Snarky?"
Kellerman: "Yeah, snarky, you know, from the ancient Greek, meaning 'butthead?'"
(hear it at http://www.schlock.net/hsounds.html)
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Snark as a verb, however...
Date: 2003-04-04 11:51 am (UTC)[Corresponds to MLG. and LG. snarken (NFris. snarke, Sw. and Norw. snarka), MHG. snarchen (G. schnarchen, †schnarken), of imitative origin: cf. snork v.]
1. intr. To snore; to snort.
1866 N. & Q. 3rd Ser. X. 248/1, I will not quite compare it [a sound] to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 4/1 All of a sudden she (the mare, I suppose he meant) snarked an' begun to turn round.
2. intr. and trans. To find fault (with), to nag.
1882 Jamieson's Sc. Dict. IV. 314/2 To Snark,+to fret, grumble, or find fault with one. 1904 E. Nesbit Phœnix & Carpet x. 185 He remembered how Anthea had refrained from snarking him about tearing the carpet.