snark

To snark is to complain.

(verb)

An example of snark is to make rude comments under your breath about how you’d rather be home.

The definition of a snark is a complaint.

(noun)

An example of a snark is what someone said when asked to stay an extra hour at work.

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See snark in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an imaginary animal created by Lewis Carroll in his poem The Hunting of the Snark

Origin: prob. < sn(ake) + (sh)ark

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