[f. SNARL v.2]
1. One who snarls; an ill-tempered, grumbling or fault-finding person.
1634. T. Carew, Cælum Brit., 7.
| I shun in vaine the importunity | |
| With which this Snarler vexeth all the gods. |
1703. Rowe, Ulysses, I. i. ’Tis the Snarler Æthon, A priviledg’d Talker.
1779. Ann. Reg., II. 52. The snarlers against Mr. Garrick’s management of the theatre.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 555. A plain good woman, neither blue-stocking nor snarler.
1884. C. Mackay, in 19th Cent., Aug., 253. The great soul of Shakespeare … was much too great to take vengeance or damn the ill-natured snarlers to immortal disgrace.
2. A dog or other animal addicted to snarling.
1797. Monthly Mag., III. 536. Their doors guarded by large and very surly dogs. The women were no great admirers of those snarlers.
