Snarky

[peacock2121]

rudely sarcastic

snide

Sounds like someone I know.

[christie1111]

Sounds like a lot of people we know!

[Rexer25]

rudely sarcastic

snide

Sounds like someone I know.

Sounds like a bored I know...

[peacock2121]

rudely sarcastic

snide

Sounds like someone I know.

Sounds like a bored I know...

LOL - sounds like BobJuch to me.

I would not even put that on HoltDad - he doesn't do the sarcastic thing much or well.

[littlebeast13]

Three cheers for snarkyness!!!!!

lb13

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Three cheers for snarkyness!!!!!

lb13

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
 That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
 What I tell you three times is true.”

[andrewjackson]

Interesting. Much older usage than I realized and it comes from to find fault with or nag.

From the OED:

snark, v.

dial.

[Corresponds to MLG. and LG. snarken (NFris. snarke, Sw. and Norw. snarka), MHG. snarchen (G. schnarchen, {dag}schnarken), of imitative origin: cf. SNORK v.]

1. intr. To snore; to snort.
1866 N. & Q. 3rd Ser. X. 248/1, I will not quite compare it [a sound] to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 4/1 All of a sudden she (the mare, I suppose he meant) snarked an' begun to turn round.

2. intr. and trans. To find fault (with), to nag.
1882 Jamieson's Sc. Dict. IV. 314/2 To Snark,..to fret, grumble, or find fault with one. 1904 E. NESBIT Ph{oe}nix & Carpet x. 185 He remembered how Anthea had refrained from snarking him about tearing the carpet.

and

snarky, a.
colloq.


[f. SNARK v. + -Y1.]

Irritable, short-tempered, ‘narky’.
1906 E. NESBIT Railway Children ii. 49 Don't be snarky, Peter. It isn't our fault. 1913 J. VAIZEY College Girl xxiv. 326 ‘Why should you think I am “snarky”?’ ‘Because{em}you are! You're not a bit sociable and friendly.’ 1953 E. COXHEAD Midlanders x. 247 I've known you were the soul of kindness, under that snarky way. a1974 R. CROSSMAN Diaries (1976) II. 627 We also have to overcome something else{em}the stream of anti-government propaganda, smearing, snarky, derisive, which comes out of Fleet Street.

Hence {sm}snarkily adv.; {sm}snarkiness; {sm}snarkish a.
1912 R. FRY Let. 16 Mar. (1972) I. 355 So sorry I seem so snarkish just now. 1960 Economist 28 May 859/2 In some of his comments on bureaucracy there is a relapse into snarkiness. 1967 Listener 20 July 91/3 Viewers' letters are not just read out. They are commented upon by Kenneth Robinson (usually rather snarkily).

[Bob78164]

I think that Nate Silver has it exactly right. This was a speech that was designed to, and did, fire up the base. The problem is that it almost certainly fired up both bases, and in 2008, the Democratic base is bigger than the Republican base.

If the bases turn out equally, all Obama needs to do is split the independent vote, and he wins. And after that sarcastic, mean-spirited, mocking speech, I don't see how McCain can hope to do any better than a split. --Bob

[andrewjackson]

I think that Nate Silver has it exactly right. This was a speech that was designed to, and did, fire up the base. The problem is that it almost certainly fired up both bases, and in 2008, the Democratic base is bigger than the Republican base.

If the bases turn out equally, all Obama needs to do is split the independent vote, and he wins. And after that sarcastic, mean-spirited, mocking speech, I don't see how McCain can hope to do any better than a split. --Bob

I thought this was a non-political thread.