英语词汇“snarf”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

snarf

释义

snarf, v. slang (orig. U.S.).
Brit. |snɑːf|, U.S. |snɑrf|
[Imitative, although probably influenced by scarf v.⁴]
1. trans. To eat or drink quickly or greedily. Freq. with down, up. Also intr.
[1958Amer. Speech 33 225 In jazz slang..anything to eat is snarf or skittles; anything to drink is a taste.]1963Amer. Speech 38 176 Popular substitutes for the verb to eat include..to snarf down the goodies, snarf referring, according to one informant, to the act of eating like an animal.1982Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 20 June iv. 7/1 In the meantime, we gave her a bottle, and she drank 2 ounces like that. Snarfed it right down.1988Chicago Tribune 13 July c1 Camp Director Bill Mathis turned up the radio for Aaron Copland's ‘Appalachian Spring’ as Jermaine, La Toya and Curtis snarfed eagerly on individual bags of potato chips.1990J. Leavy Squeeze Play i. 32 If they behave, they are allowed out to mingle with the glitterati for exactly one half hour and snarf up crudités and crab claws.2003Oxf. Amer. Jan.–Feb. 52/2 The way we take in food at KFC, just snarfing it.
2. trans. To grab or snatch, esp. without permission; to take or use greedily or rapidly. Freq. with down, up.
1968Amer. Speech 43 313 Did they pay for those peaches..or did they just snarf them up?1983G. L. Steele et al. Hacker's Dict. 118 This program snarfs all the file directories and searches for files named ‘delete.me’.1992Amer. Libraries Mar. 248/3 Developing programming ideas also struck a common chord. Judge spoke of ‘snarfing up’ ideas wherever she found them.2001N.Y. Mag. 19 Nov. 64/2 But after reading Stuffed—snarfing it down would be more accurate—it occurs to me that Volk's book speaks to our frazzled times in a deeper way.
3. trans. To take (a powdered drug) by inhaling it into the nose, esp. quickly or in large amounts. Chiefly with up. Cf. snort v.¹ 7.
1973 snarfer n. at Derivatives1993Guardian 7 July ii. 8/3 Notoriously, she also took drugs: heroin, LSD, cocaine... For a while, she snarfed them all up like there was no tomorrow.2000W. Self How Dead Live (2001) x. 222 Natasha had sat on the edge of the big Slumberdown, half-naked to give the married man the necessary visual folder, while she snarfed up the remains of his cocaine.
Derivatives. snarfer n.
1973Drug Forum 2 424 Sniffers, snorters, or *snarfers [of cocaine] are also prone to infection of the mucous membranes.2001L. Erdrich Last Rep. Miracles at Little No Horse xx. 310 That neurasthenic pierogi snarfer?
snarfing n.
1982Sunday Sun-Times (Chicago) 20 June iv. 7/1 The *snarfing, which has become a way of life for you, continued for the next few days, and by the end of the week you were strong enough to go home.1999D. LeHane Prayers for Rain (2000) 184 Bubba dove back into his food, and for a few moments the only sounds in that room came from his shoveling and snarfing.

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