different between nart vs nark
nart
Middle English
Contraction
nart
- Contraction of ne art
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale.
- Teere lakkyth no thyng to thyn vtter Iyen / That thow nart blynd / for thyng that we seen alle / That is a stoon that men may wel espyen.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Second Nun's Tale.
Anagrams
- Tarn, Tran, rant, tRNA, tarn, tran
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nart/
Noun
nart
- genitive plural of narta
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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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