snarl

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1. snarl - Noun

2. snarl - Verb

Meaning

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread.

To embarrass; to insnare.

A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.

To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.

To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.

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

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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song. Algernon Charles Swinburne

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. George Meredith

The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history. John Dos Passos

It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs. Douglas Adams

I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! Kurt Vonnegut

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. William Feather

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