snarge
/snɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.
Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge."
- "Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important."