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snarking

snarking is the present participle and gerund of snark.

Meaning of snark

Verb

snark (third-person singular simple present snarks, present participle snarking, simple past and past participle snarked)

  1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
    • Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times
  2. (obsolete) To snort.

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Questions about snarking

What is snarking the present participle and gerund of?
Snarking is the present participle and gerund of snark.

Words near snarking in the dictionary

  1. snarkers
  2. snarkier
  3. snarkiest
  4. snarkily
  5. snarkiness
  6. snarking
  7. snarkish
  8. snarkishly
  9. snarkless
  10. snarks
  11. snarktastic

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