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glark |
2 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: glark /glark/ vt To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally `glork'; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hacker usage mutated the verb to `glark' because {glork} was already an established jargon term (some hackers do report using the original term). Compare {grok}, {zen}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: glark /glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally "glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the January 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured that hackish usage mutated the verb to glark" because {glork} was already an established jargon term. Compare {grok}, {zen}. [{Jargon File}]
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