http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,...A few months ago, I decided that my new favorite blog was Stuff White People Like. If you don't keep up with all the snarky, zeitgeisty corners of the Internet, Stuff White People Like is a pseudo-anthropological list mocking the habits, tastes and whims of people of non-color.
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.a...Thanks largely to the advent of the Internet blogs, "snarky" commentaries are sweeping the craft of journalism. Partly because the snark movement is still so new, it's tough to pin down a definition for the species. But how's this one? If something is funny, edgy, topical and opinionated -- without resorting merely to being caustic or sophomoric -- it could probably be called snarky.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_154/wallstr...If, like me, you are irritated by the media’s tendency to overuse the word “snarky,” particularly in reference to the “blogosphere,” there is someone you can blame. “I started using it,” says Elizabeth Spiers, founding editor of Gawker.com and editor/publisher of Dealbreaker.com. “I was looking for some descriptor for Gawker — I thought of it as cheeky irony.”
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?d...More precisely, snarky means critical in an annoying, sarcastic, grumpy, wisecracking, or cynical sort of way. Maybe you're referring to the recent headline in The New York Times: "The Stars of Reality TV Are Snarky, Whiny and Loud. But They Look Fabulous." The comedian David Spade has been called snarky, and so has David Letterman. The young star of the TV show Malcolm in the Middle is very snarky. And a cantankerous curmudgeon is snarky by definition.
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/hun...A: I see the word "snarky" in newspapers and hear it on TV all the time, but I can’t figure out what it means. Please help!
Q: I can understand your confusion. It sometimes seems as if "snarky" has as many definitions as users.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines the slang term "snarky" as irritable or short-tempered. The Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines it as crotchety or snappish. The Mavens’ Word of the Day, a Random House website, says it means critical in an annoying, sarcastic, grumpy, wisecracking, or cynical way. Other definitions that I’ve seen include witty, ironic, curmudgeonly, snide, snotty, and arrogant. It’s your pick.
http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/S0508050.htmlThe American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition
snarky
ADJECTIVE
Slang Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictio...Main Entry: snarky
Function: adjective
Etymology: dialect snark to annoy, perhaps alteration of nark to irritate
Date: 1906
1 : crotchety, snappish
2 : sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner [snarky lyrics]
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/snarky?v...snarky
• adjective (snarkier, snarkiest) N. Amer. informal sharply critical.
— ORIGIN from dialect snark ‘snore, snort’, ‘find fault’.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
snarky adj. informal [...] irritable; short-tempered [19th c. dial snark (v.) 'find fault with', 'nag' + Y]
