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]