[f. SNARL v.2]
1. That snarls; given to snarling: a. Of dogs or other animals.
1595. Locrine, V. iv. The snarling curres of darkened Tartarus.
1612. Field, Woman is Weathercock, I. i. The snarling dogs were mute.
1675. Marvell, Corr., Wks. (Grosart), II. 489. Not at all … dejected or much concerned with such snarling currs.
1753. Miss Collier, Art Torment., I. i. (1811), 28. Little snarling lap-dogs.
1828–32. Webster, Growler, a snarling cur.
b. transf. Of persons.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 69 b. Nought but sharpe discipline, is a fitte disputant with snarling Scismatiques.
1635. Barriffe, Mil. Discipl., lxx. (1643), 187. Snarling Cynicks, I know, will carpe at my curiositie.
1732. Berkeley, Alciphr., V. § 28. A pack of snarling sour bigots.
1841. Thackeray, Gt. Hoggarty Diamond, v. All admired it hugely, except that snarling Scotchman.
1884. Nonconf. & Indep., 19 June, 594/2. This perpetual worrying, by sparling busybodies,… of the greatest statesman of the age.
2. Of the nature of, accompanied or characterized by, snarling.
1599. [Middleton] (title), Micro-cynicon: Sixe Snarling Satyres.
1633. Bp. Hall, Occas. Medit. (1851), 29. I had justly drawn on … this snarling importunity.
1667. Temple, Wks. (1720), II. 44. Such a snarling Peace as that at Breda.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 2, ¶ 9. Long this uncomfortable Life they led, With snarling Meals.
1806. Med. Jrnl., XV. 504. That polite language and supreme urbanity which characterize these snarling productions.
1855. [J. D. Burn], Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (1859), 184. It may be supposed that I have made these observations in a snarling temper.
3. Having or producing the sound of a snarl.
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., Prol. A 2. Snarling gusts nibble the iuyceles leaues.
1655. H. Vaughan, Silex Scint., I. 81. Each snarling blast shot through me.
1820. Keats, Eve St. Agnes, iv. Soon, up aloft, The silver, snarling trumpets ’gan to chide.
1860. Holland, Miss Gilbert, iv. 67. The snarling, grinding din of the gearing was hushed.
1900. St. Barbe, Mod. Spain, 59. The rain drove with an angry, snarling hiss.
Hence Snarlingly adv.
1862. Sala, Acc. Addresses, 35. He … denied, snarlingly, that he was worth a penny.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVI. xv. (1872), VI. 313. Whose reflections on it … are stingy, snarlingly contemptuous.
