Informer vs Nark - What's the difference?
informer | nark |
One who informs someone else about something.
A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
One who informs, animates, or inspires.
* Alexander Pope
(British, slang) A police spy or informer.
* 1912 , , Act I,
(slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
(slang) To annoy or irritate.
(slang) To complain.
(transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
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)- (Thomson)
- Nature, informer of the poet's art.
Synonyms
* informant * See alsoSee also
* name namesAnagrams
* ----nark
English
(wikipedia nark)Etymology 1
From (etyl) nak.Alternative forms
* narcNoun
(en noun)- 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)- It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.
- He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.
- Nark it! I hear someone coming!