snark v.
1. (US campus/gay, also snark it up) to gossip, usu. maliciously; to criticize, to be grumpy.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Campus Sl. Apr. 7: snark – act snappy or grouchy or in a bad mood: ‘You’ve been snarking me all day.’. | |
| ‘Buddy Fuck’ 🌐 Which was how he ended up with Nick Carter’s number programmed into his cellphone, and a promise to ‘call and snark about boys, dude.’. | |
| Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) 24 Apr. A9/2: He preferred snarky over smarmy [...] He wished I had ‘snarked it up’ even more. |
2. (US, also snark off) to render irritated.
| Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 26 May 55/3: An instrumental blend of funk, R&B and jazz fusion sounds that snarked off purists. | |
| Tampa Bay Times (St Petersburg, FL) 22 Feb. 3E/1: Once a day, Oprah Winfrey snarked off my wife. |
In derivatives
a carping critic.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Truth (Brisbane) 25 July 12: [headline] First Battalion of Brisbane Blighters / Regiments of Rooks and Crooks / Sidelights on Snarker & Co. | |
 | Palm Beach Post (FL) 22 Mar. D017/1: The trouble with today’s snarkers [...] is that they ‘don’t have a coherent view of life [...] they’re mere opportunists’. |