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Snarling

sˈnɑrlɪŋ
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. snarling
    Growling; grumbling angrily; peevish; waspish; snappish.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adjs) Snarling
    growling, snappish
Quotations
George Meredith
Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Prob. imit.; Low Ger. snarren, Ger. schnarren; conn. with Eng. snore.

Usage in the news

Aid efforts snarled by devastation. deseretnews.com

Sandy still snarling travel at Orlando airport, elsewhere. esh.com

Truck's cargo shifts, snarling I-69 for hours. journalgazette.net

Nicki & Mariah caught on video snarling on 'Idol' set. mix977online.com

San Antonio's traffic snarls easy to untangle . mysanantonio.com

For mercurial wide receiver Randy Moss, it was exit snarling. twincities.com

A semi accident snarled traffic in north Tallahassee this morning. ctv.tv

Snow likely to snarl afternoon commute. twincities.com

British police arrested 24 people, and airline security officials on both sides of the Atlantic imposed new passenger screening regulations that snarled air traffic on Thursday. ashingtonpost.com

Advertising for the Peace region wolf killing contest obtained by The Vancouver Sun depicts a snarling, vicious-looking wolf, the sort of image that hunters would not typically observe in the wild. vancouversun.com

The Town and the Village of Lewiston have been working together on the new Seneca Street on-ramp that is intended to relieve traffic snarls that typically occur on Center Street after the "Tuesday in the Park" concert series at Artpark. nypapers.com

Rosslyn, Arlington Cemetery Closures Snarl Blue Line Over Weekend. amu.org

Bay Bridge Lane Closure Likely To Snarl Beach Traffic. mdcoastdispatch.com

The bridge is the main conduit for hundreds of thousands of visitors bound for Ocean City and the Eastern Shore for the holiday weekend, and the lane closures will almost certainly snarl traffic on both sides of the bridge. mdcoastdispatch.com

Don't let customized applications snarl cash flow during ICD-10 conversion. healthcareitnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

Michael was not amused. “I’d advise you not to say that at Princeton,” he snarled.
My Life with Fisher

Usage in literature

With a snarl of rage, Ramon flashed round on the boy. "The Border Boys Across the Frontier" by Fremont B. Deering

A snarl cut over the purr of water. "Star Hunter" by Andre Alice Norton

The wolfs muzzle wrinkled in a snarl, revealing long yellow-white teeth. "The Time Traders" by Andre Norton

The Indian Pack-Dogs snarled at his presence, and yapped crabbedly. "The Outcasts" by W. A. Fraser

Behind mask plate Ross's lips writhed in the snarl of the hunted. "Key Out of Time" by Andre Alice Norton

Then, close behind her shelter, there sounded a horrible, snarling shriek. "Ted Strong in Montana" by Edward C. Taylor

We both scrambled to our feet, for we heard an ugly snarl. "A Busy Year at the Old Squire's" by Charles Asbury Stephens

The sound they heard was the low, complaining snarl of the Wolf. "The Call of the Beaver Patrol" by V. T. Sherman

The big man snarled with anger, and lunged more eagerly at Pierre. "Riders of the Silences" by John Frederick

The dogs were before him, a snarling, fighting mass. "Left on the Labrador" by Dillon Wallace

Usage in poetry
The flakes in the air with a look,
Surrounding himself with the silence
Of whitening snarls. Let him eat
The last red meal of the condemned
And toy with him in amorous jests, and when
he turns, and snarls, and gnaws,
O smite him with your jasper claws! and bruise
him with your agate breasts!
Perhaps he shows a pathway to the just,
Beside which other paths look snarled and curled,
Or keeps an entrance to the underworld,
Invisible in superficial dust.
Snarling complete in the joy of a weasel
With an elk's horned heart in his stomach
Looking straight into the eternal
Blue, where he hauls his kind. I would have it all
CHORUS
Oh, bother the missus, and bother her tongue,
And bother her snapping and snarling;
Through wagging her jaws, without any cause,
To-morrow I'm losing my darling.
I know the softly shining sea
That rolls this gentle swell
Has snarled and licked its tongues at me
And bared its fangs as well;
That 'neath its smile so heavenly,
There lurks the scowl of hell!