jeer vs snark

jeer

noun
  • A mocking remark or reflection. 

  • An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the yards of a ship. 

  • A gear; a tackle. 

verb
  • To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. 

snark

noun
  • Snide remarks or attitude. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To express oneself in a snarky fashion. 

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