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Snarl   /snɑrl/   Listen
noun
Snarl  n.  A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.



Snarl  n.  The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.



verb
Snarl  v. t.  (past & past part. snarled; pres. part. snarling)  To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.



Snarl  v. t.  
1.
To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread. "Her snarled hair."
2.
To embarrass; to insnare. "(The) question that they would have snarled him with."



Snarl  v. i.  
1.
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds. "An angry cur snarls while he feeds."
2.
To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms. "It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted."






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"Snarl" Quotes from Famous Books



... snorts in their ears: Yan-kee ship come down de ri-ib-er, Pull! my bully boys! Pull! D'yeh want—to know de captain ru-uns her? Pull! my bully boys! Pull! Jon-a-than Jones ob South Caho-li-in-a, Pull! my bully. He broke off abruptly, tottered with a wolfish snarl to the meat shelf, and before they could intercept was tearing with his teeth at a chunk of raw bacon. The struggle was fierce between him and Malemute Kid; but his mad strength left him as suddenly as it had come, and he weakly surrendered the spoil. Between them they got him upon a stool, ...
— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London

... scattering fast, gathers them into a half-moon; and the Armada tries to keep solemn way forward, like a stately herd of buffaloes, who march on across the prairie, disdaining to notice the wolves which snarl around their track. But in vain. These are no wolves, but cunning hunters, swiftly horsed, and keenly armed, and who will "shamefully shuffle" (to use Drake's own expression) that vast herd from the Lizard ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... but from sheer modesty, JUSTIN MCCARTHY has taken up almost identical position; Truculent TIM guards the corner seat, where he can snap and snarl with fuller freedom. Fell upon Prince ARTHUR to-night with fearsome ferocity. The Prince, having explained his measure last week, when TIM and the rest were "deliberating" in Committee Room No. 15, he ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Dec. 20, 1890 • Various

... his thick lips parted, his fingers twitching nervously. The latter smiled grimly, his motions deliberate, his eyes never wavering. Slowly, one by one, he turned up his cards, never even deigning to glance downward, his entire manner that of unstudied indifference. One—two—three. Willis uttered a snarl like a stricken wild beast, and sank back in his chair, his eyes closed, his cheeks ghastly. Four. Slavin brought down his great clenched fist with a crash on the table, a string of oaths bursting unrestrained from his lips. Five. Hampton, never ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish

... night. These men were a rough type, altogether different from the preceding ones. About eight o'clock as we, the women, were waiting in the library for dinner to be announced, we heard a tremendous stamping of heavy boots and spurs and a snarl of angry voices just over our heads. Baronne de H., brave little woman as she always proved herself to be, flew up the stairs in a flash and found her brothers at the end of the hall between two orderlies with fixed bayonets, ...
— Lige on the Line of March - An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium • Glenna Lindsley Bigelow


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