Definition of "snarler"
snarler
noun
plural snarlers
Quotations
"Yeah," snarled the other guy, "well, why don't you write this down: You can't bet more than that $100 chip from now on. You can only play one hand and" — he turned to the dealer — "shuffle up on every couple of rounds, you hear me?"[...]"You don't mind if I play craps?" I asked them as I parted. "I'm not going to be hassled at craps, am I?""Play craps all you want," said the snarler, triumphant in his knowledge that no one could beat craps.
2004, Frank Scoblete, The Craps Underground, page 91
(by extension) a person with a disagreeable or antagonistic temperament
Quotations
[...]; his acquaintance with Wordsworth, whose Midas-ears he really persuaded himself to admire ; his intercourse with Godwin ; and his close alliance with that perverse and wrong-headed but brilliant snarler, Hazlitt.
September 1867, Bertie Club Table Talk, "reported by Feuilleton", published in Scott's Monthly Magazine, volume 4, number 3, W. J. Scott (editor), page 695
I was a snarler. I prided myself on being a snarler. I would go to great lengths to avoid stereotypical feminine behaviour. I thought that in being outrageous or out of control, which I viewed as synonymous, I was thumbing my nose at the patriarchy. My biggest fear about AA was that I would lose my edge. Turn into blancmange.
2010, Kate Jennings, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical: Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 36