Fun game! Hopefully someone will play it with me


snarky adj \ˈsnär-kē\
1: crotchety, snappish
2: sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner <snarky lyrics>
— snark·i·ly adverb


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Examples of SNARKY

<working all day with such snarky jerks is exhausting>
<with champagne as a lubricant, she unleashed an unending series of snarky comments for the duration of the wedding reception>
The writer at No. 10, Fred Mustard Stewart, died last February at 74. His obituary in The Guardian contained this snarky observation: “Year in, year out, the 600-page mark did not daunt him.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review, 24 Feb. 2008
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Origin of SNARKY
dialect snark to annoy, perhaps alteration of nark to irritate
First Known Use: 1906

**** I found snark interesting, so I looked up snark and nark ****

snark
   [snahrk]
noun
a mysterious, imaginary animal.
Origin:
1876; coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem The Hunting of the Snark

nark 1 (närk)
n. Slang
Variant of narc.
nark 2 (närk) Chiefly British Slang
n.
An informer, especially a police informer.
intr.v. narked, nark·ing, narks
To be an informer.
[Perhaps from Romany nk, nose; see nas- in Indo-European roots.]


**** So basically, the two slang words, narc and snarky come from Lewis Carroll, a favorite of mine. I had no idea when I started this post! That's a good Jeopardy question, hehe ****

xenophilia \zen-uh-FIL-ee-uh\ , noun:
An attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
Yet the scenario of openhanded host and guest, of xenophilia, is played out time and time again in Homer's Odyssey. It mattered to those hill-bound and sea-scattered tribes that the wanderer be made welcome…
-- Nicholas Delbanco, The Lost Suitcase
This connectedness — so evident to the drama's spectator, so indiscernible to the dramatized participant — promotes what we might call xenophilia.
-- Susan Gubar, Critical Condition
The opposite of xenophobia, xenophilia has the same Greek roots. It literally means "attracted to strangers." It first appeared in English in the 1920s and was used heavily after the Second World War.