different between whistleblower vs narc

English

Noun

whistleblower (plural whistleblowers)

1. Alternative form of whistle-blower

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English whistle-blower.

Noun

whistleblower

1. whistle-blower ((former) public employee who informs the general populace about breaches of law)
   • 2016, Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier, Panama Papers: Historien om en verdensomspændende afsløring, Politikens Forlag (?ISBN)

     ... whistleblowere og aktivister i USA og Europa har fået ødelagt deres liv ...

     ... whistle-blowers and activists in USA and Europe have had their lives destroyed ...

   • 2013, Charlotte Langkilde, Bedraget – Sagen om Nordisk Fjer, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN)

     Jeg har stillet mange whistleblowere spørgsmålet, om det var det hele værd.

     I have asked many whistle-blowers whether it was worth it all.

   • 2014, Glenn Greenwald (tr. by Niels Ivar Larsen), Overvåget, Informations Forlag (?ISBN)

     Obamaregeringen, som har stået for flere retssager mod whistleblowere, end alle hans^{[sic, meaning dens]} forgængere til sammen, ...

     The Obama administration, which has been responsible for more trials against whistle-blowers than all his^{[sic, meaning its]} predecessors taken together, ...

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: näk, IPA^(key): /n??k/
• (US) enPR: närk, IPA^(key): /n???k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

Clipping of narcotics (control) officer.

Noun

narc (plural narcs)

1. (informal, colloquial, drugs) A police officer assigned to or engaging in illegal narcotics control.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative spelling of nark, influenced by narc (“narcotics officer”).

Noun

narc (plural narcs)

1. (informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark (“spy”)

Verb

narc (third-person singular simple present narcs, present participle narcing, simple past and past participle narced)

1. (informal, colloquial, drugs) Alternative spelling of nark

See also

• stool pigeon

Etymology 3

Clipping of narcosis.

Verb

narc (third-person singular simple present narcs, present participle narcing, simple past and past participle narced)

1. (underwater diving, slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (for example, while scuba diving).

Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of narcissist.

Noun

narc (plural narcs)

1. (colloquial, informal) A narcissist.

Anagrams

• Carn, Cran, NRCA, cRNA, carn, cran, cran-, crna