snar

S1N1A1R1
/snɑː(ɹ)/

verb

To snarl.

Scrabble 4

Meanings

verbsnar (third-person singular simple present snars, present participle snarring, simple past and past participle snarred)

present singular third person snars · participle present snarring · participle past snarred · past snarred

  1. obsoleteTo snarl.

    And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren And snar at all that ever passed by

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

Akin to Low German and Old Dutch snarren, German schnarren.

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APA

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Chicago

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