Etymology of snark

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      "expansion": "snore + -k"
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      "name": "cog",
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        "1": "nds",
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      "expansion": "Low German snarken"
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      "name": "cog",
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        "1": "frr",
        "2": "snarke"
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      "expansion": "North Frisian snarke"
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      "name": "cog",
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      "name": "cog",
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      "name": "der",
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        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
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      "*snarkōn",
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      "snore",
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      "-k",
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      "snarken",
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      "snarke",
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      "snarka",
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      "schnarchen",
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      "snort",
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        "To express oneself in a snarky fashion.",
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        "an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm."
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        "The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.",
        "A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.",
        "A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment."
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