snarl

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
  2. The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
  3. An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
  4. A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
  5. A slow-moving traffic jam.
    — The biggest cities feel the most acute impact of the last mile – of the squads of trucks and vans, the parcel hubs and sorting centres, the parking snarls and the discarded boxes.
  6. A squabble.
动词 v.
  1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots. transitive
    — to snarl a skein of thread
  2. To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds. intransitive
  3. To become entangled. intransitive
  4. To complain angrily; to utter growlingly. transitive
  5. To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated. transitive
    — November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stanford [the] question that they would have snarled him with
  6. To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms. intransitive
    — It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
  7. To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested. intransitive,transitive
  8. To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé

词形变化

snarls present,singular,third-person snarling participle,present snarled participle,past snarled past snarls plural snarls present,singular,third-person snarling participle,present snarled participle,past snarled past snarls plural

词汇关系

衍生词
asnarl countersnarl ensnarl insnarl snarler snarling iron snarlish snarl up snarl-up snarly unsnarl snarling snarlingly snarl word

词源

词源 1
From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le.
词源 2
Frequentative of earlier snar (“to growl”), perhaps from Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), of probably imitative origin. Equivalent to snar + -le. Related to German schnarren (“to rattle”) and schnurren (“to hum, buzz”).
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