sarcast
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from sarcastic.
Noun
[edit]sarcast (plural sarcasts)
- One who speaks sarcastically.
- 1998, John Haiman, Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, →ISBN, page 25:
- The "other speaker" may be the sarcast's present interlocutor, an absent third person, or a conventional attitude.
- 2006, María Isabel Kalbermatten, Verbal Irony as a Prototype Category in Spanish: A Discoursive Analysis:
- In other words, sarcasm is absolute because the sarcast perceives “two versions of reality”.
- 2012, Abraham Iqbal Khan, Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete, →ISBN, page 30:
- The sarcast's perspective is that of the know-it-all wiseguy, who rolls his eyes while he mouths the lines of his 'role,' demonstrating that he appreciates their absurdity.