Snarl

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots; as, to snarl a skein of thread. "Her snarled hair." Spenser.

2. To embarrass; to insnare. [The] question that they would have snarled him with. Latimer.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds. "An angry cur snarls while he feeds." Dryden & Lee.

2. To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. Dryden.