[Ads-l] snark

[Ben Zimmer]

I discussed the modern sense of "snark" (a back-formation of "snarky") on a
2014 episode of the podcast Lexicon Valley, with a follow-up Word Routes
column:

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/a-snark-hunt-on-lexicon-valley/

As mentioned there, the site Television Without Pity was using the motto
"Spare the snark, spoil the networks" in 2002. Merriam-Webster dates the
noun to 1999 and the verb to 1987.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snark

--bgz

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 10:40 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> Hunting of the Snark is a classic of cryptozoology...
> if there ever was.
> But OED seems to lack the more recent sense.
>

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