2022 He was greeted with confusion, laughter and snark from the judges, who pegged this as a gag audition. 2022 Any pre-show snark about the set being overly maudlin were snuffed out by this stretch, as Mercer and the band, dressed in all white, commanded the crowd like a jam session at a very joyous cult. 2022 Now her detractors are blurring the line between snark and abuse. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep.
2022 Autje and her best friend, the slightly older Neitje (Liv McNeil), braid each other’s hair, goof around and sigh over the back-and-forth, occasionally interjecting a word or two of snark and insight. John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Sep. We’re not saying people didnt have snark before then, just that we dont have written evidence of its use. 2022 And with the local tech world such an easy target for snark and scorn, no wonder the lush rooftop suffers collateral damage. The sense of snark meaning the kind of attitude embodied by that wedding toast your inebriated friend thought was a good idea is a much more recent addition, coming up in the 1990s. 2022 John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s burly, 6-foot-9 Democratic lieutenant governor, has wielded the weapons of satire and snark on the internet and off to turn Oz’s residency and wealth into a focal point of the race.Įlvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022 Black women announcing their relationship status with a mix of glee and snark is nearly its own music genre.īrooklyn White, Essence, 9 Sep. The second definition in the Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary and the second example in Kipfer & Chapman seem to support your suggestion that the word can refer to "mildly acerbic humor." But dictionaries haven't yet caught up with the more benign sense of "wry off-the-cuff" humor that you suggest-if indeed a significant number of users have that meaning in mind.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The Griswold kids, Rusty (Nathan Levy) and Audrey (Livvy Marcus) at least have cellphones and the worldly snark of today’s sitcom offspring. But lets see how various reference works define the term. I dont associate the word with merely wry or off-the-cuff humor. Dial.Ĭlearly, snarky is a rapidly evolving term, and dictionaries have only recently begun to come to grips with it. My impression is that people use snarky to mean everything from 'mean-spirited' or 'rude' (no hint of humor) to 'sarcastic' (humor with a hostile edge). 1941: "It's a snarky one -a super-dooper." Radio, Fibber McGee, Nov. From Harold Wentworth & Stuart Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang (1960): The third edition of Kipfer & Chapman (1995) has the same entry for snarky as the fourth edition (except that it also identifies the sources of the two included examples).Ī very different-and presumably obsolete-meaning appears in the first edition of the Dictionary of American Slang, however.
Snarky adj Irritable, touchy : She's just in a snarky mood, that's all / a snarky, no-illusions, but far-from-hopeless comedy The third edition of the AHDEL has no entry for snarky.įrom Barbara Kipfer & Robert Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, fourth edition (2007): Snarky adj Slang Irritable or short-tempered irascible. The Tenth Edition (1993) has only the "CROTCHETY, SNAPPISH" definition, and the Ninth Edition (1989) has no entry for snarky.įrom The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition (2000): But more than the cultural diversity of the individual players, the defining characteristic of Snarky Puppys music is the joy of performing together in the. The Eleventh Edition's definition 2 is new to that edition. Snarky adj (1906) 1 : CROTCHETY, SNAPPISH 2 : sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner
But let's see how various reference works define the term.įrom Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, eleventh edition (2003): I don't associate the word with merely wry or off-the-cuff humor. My impression is that people use snarky to mean everything from "mean-spirited" or "rude" (no hint of humor) to "sarcastic" (humor with a hostile edge).
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