Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
- noun One who snarls metal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes use of a snarling iron.
- noun One who snarls; a surly, growling animal; a grumbling, quarrelsome fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun literally one who
snarls - noun by extension a person with a disagreeable or antagonistic
temperament - noun One who uses a
snarling iron .
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Examples
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It may amuse some to find thingummy replaced by doodackie, to hear a sausage called a snarler or to hear he did his bun for ` he was angry '.
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CRAMER: Because Washington has an idea about Bob Dole that he's some kind of snarler, that he's a grouch and a snarler and a bitter man.
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The burly snarler from Croxteth is no longer a teenage prodigy.
What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda? 2011
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A black, red-tonged snarler that has the most annoying meaw. it lasts and lasts like a wining Edith Bunker in "All in the Family".
I hate cats 2005
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And we are more apt to be offended with a joke than a plain and scurrilous abuse; for we see the latter often slip from a man unwittingly in passion, but consider the former as a thing voluntary, proceeding from malice and ill-nature; and therefore we are generally more offended at a sharp jeerer than a whistling snarler.
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And we are more apt to be offended with a joke than a plain and scurrilous abuse; for we see the latter often slip from a man unwittingly in passion, but consider the former as a thing voluntary, proceeding from malice and ill-nature; and therefore we are generally more offended at a sharp jeerer than a whistling snarler.
Symposiacs 2004
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CARLSON: But -- no, but Reagan was dismissed as a snarler, as an extremist, as a whacko.
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GREENFIELD: No, I don't think anybody thought he was a snarler, Tucker.
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A wolf, which he was anxious to put out of the way, he being a sad snarler, was the first animal which the young man Chappewee placed on the infant earth; but the weight of the creature was so great, that it began to sink upon one side, and was in danger of turning over.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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But Lockhart was "more than a satirist and a snarler."
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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