As nouns the difference between informer and nark
is that
informer is one who informs someone else about something while
nark is (british|slang) a police spy or informer or
nark can be (
narcotics officer).
As a verb nark is
(slang) to serve or behave as a spy or informer.
informer English
Alternative forms
* informor (qualifier)
* informour (qualifier)
Noun
( en noun)
One who informs someone else about something.
A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
One who informs, animates, or inspires.
- (Thomson)
* Alexander Pope
- Nature, informer of the poet's art.
Synonyms
* informant
* See also
See also
* name names
Anagrams
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nark Etymology 1
From (etyl) nak.
Alternative forms
* narc
Noun
( en noun)
(British, slang) A police spy or informer.
* 1912 , , 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.
Verb
( en verb)
(slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
(slang) To annoy or irritate.
- It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.
(slang) To complain.
- He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.
(transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
- Nark it! I hear someone coming!
Synonyms
*
* tattle
Etymology 2
See narc
Noun
( en noun)
(narcotics officer).
References
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* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
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