different between warg vs narg

English

Etymology

Noun: Reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien, from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”); compare also Old English wearg.Verb: Coined by George RR Martin for "A Song of Ice and Fire", from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w???/

Noun

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy fiction, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit:

     Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together [...].

   • 1993, "jbatka", Multiple colors for PC compatible (on newsgroup rec.hack)

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

Verb

warg (third-person singular simple present wargs, present participle warging, simple past and past participle warged)

1. (fantasy fiction) To enter the body of an animal.

See also

• dire wolf

Anagrams

• GAWR, Garw

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wer??-.

Noun

warg m

1. wolf

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vark/

Noun

warg f

1. genitive plural of warga

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• gvarj, hw?ri, wærg, wåri, vari, vare

Etymology

From Old Norse vargr, fron Proto-Germanic *wargaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /war?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

warg m

1. wolf
2. wheelbarrow

English

Etymology

An acronym for "not a real gentleman" Someone who discusses matters of business when not working. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

narg (plural nargs)

1. (Internet) A nerd, someone with extensive knowledge of a particular technical field.
   • 1994 November 7, "purvis" (username), "Postal Tiddlywinks", in alt.games.tiddlywinks, Usenet:

     Perhaps I can be of some assistance here, as I appear to be a member of the Rules subcommittee and am therefore (and for other reasons to numerous to mention) a narg.

   • 1997, November 4, Sunday lunch, cam.misc

     I don't work in the computer industry, either, but all my friends are sad nargs who sit around talking about things like HHGTTG.

   • 1998, June 11, Unusual job for talented computer programmer, cam.misc

     ... most of my adult life going out with a succession of computer programmers, physicists, engineers, budding mathematicians and general nargs of both sexes.

   • 2001 February 2, "Vicky Larmour" (username), "Any americans reading this? - HELP!!!!", in cam.misc, Usenet:

     > Tried that myself as a kid (must be an inquisitive nargy engineering

     > thing).

     Oi! Brown! Are you calling me a narg? Oh well, fair enough I suppose :-)

Derived terms

• nargery

References

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003) , “narg”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7

Anagrams

• ARNG, gRNA, garn, gnar, gran, grna, rang