different between nark vs nork

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)

1. (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.
2. (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)

1. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
2. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.

   Synonyms: rat, tattle; see also Thesaurus:rat out

3. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.

4. (intransitive, slang) To complain.

5. (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)

1. 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

English

Etymology

Unknown, originally used in Australia, attested since the 1960s. One theory suggests that the source is Norco Co-operative, a butter manufacturer that featured a cow's udder on package labels, but this is considered dubious.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??k/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /no?k/

Noun

nork (plural norks)

1. (slang, chiefly in plural) A woman's breast.
   • 1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, p. 91:

     I lay there so close I could've reached out in any direction and just grabbed a nork.

   • 1999, Louis Nowra, The twelfth of never:

     Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks.

   • 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the end of the world:

     And her norks! Like a hundred times bigger than his sister's. Why was he thinking about his sister's norks? Gross.

References

Anagrams

• Kron, N. Kor., NKRO, Ronk, knor

Basque

Etymology

nor (“who”) +? -(e)k (ergative suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nork/

Pronoun

nork

1. ergative indefinite of nor; who

Usage notes

Both nor and nork are both translated as "who", but nork refers to the subject of a transitive verb:

To ask about the object of a transitive verb or the subject of an intransitive verb, nor is used: