glark

glark

/glark/ To figure something out from context. "The System IIImanuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark themeaning from context." Interestingly, the word was originally"glork"; the context was "This gubblick contains manynonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandispcan be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, quoted byDouglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in theJanuary 1981 "Scientific American"). It is conjectured thathackish usage mutated the verb to "glark" because glork wasalready an established jargon term.

Compare grok, zen.