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nark
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /n??k/, enPR: näk
- (US) IPA(key): /n???k/, enPR: närk
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Perhaps from Angloromani nok (“nose”), from Romani nak, from Sauraseni Prakrit ???????????????? (?akka), ultimately a doublet of nose.
Alternative forms
- narc
Noun
nark (plural narks)
- (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant
- 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act I,
- It’s a—well, it’s a copper’s nark, as you might say. What else would you call it? A sort of informer.
- (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others.
- Synonyms: spoilsport; see also Thesaurus:jerk, Thesaurus:git
Related terms
- (police spy): copper's nark
Translations
Verb
nark (third-person singular simple present narks, present participle narking, simple past and past participle narked)
- (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
- (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
- Synonyms: rat, tattle; see also Thesaurus:rat out
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.
- (intransitive, slang) To complain.
- (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
Derived terms
- (watch): nark it (“look out”)
- (inform on): narking dues
Translations
Etymology 2
See narc.
Noun
nark (plural narks)
- Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).
References
- “nark” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Anagrams
- ARNK, Karn, karn, knar, kran, rank
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nabk
English
Wikispecies
Alternative forms
- nabak, nabq, nubk, nebeck, nebbuk, nebak
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (nabq).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?næb(?)k/
Noun
nabk (plural nabks)
- Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
- 1870, Christian Henry Bateman (editor), The Bible class magazine (volume 10, page 61)
- Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]
- 1870, Christian Henry Bateman (editor), The Bible class magazine (volume 10, page 61)
- The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.
Anagrams
- Bank, Knab, bank, knab
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