barrack vs snark

barrack

verb
  • To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means. 

  • To cheer for or support a team. 

  • To house military personnel; to quarter. 

  • To live in barracks. 

noun
  • A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes. 

  • Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building. 

  • A police station. 

  • A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. 

  • A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings. 

snark

verb
  • To express oneself in a snarky fashion. 

noun
  • The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search. 

  • A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment. 

  • A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point. 

  • Snide remarks or attitude. 

How often have the words barrack and snark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )