Larked vs Narked - What's the difference?
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(lark)
Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae .
Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
(nark)
(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 verbs the difference between larked and narked
is that larked is past tense of lark while narked is past tense of nark.larked
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(head)Anagrams
*lark
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) larke, laverke, from (etyl) ), of unknown ultimate origin with no known cognates outside of Germanic.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one who wakes early) early bird, early riserHyponyms
* woodlark, skylark, magpie-lark, horned lark, sea lark, crested lark, shorelarkExternal links
* (lark) * (Alaudidae) * (Alaudidae)Etymology 2
Origin uncertain, either * from a northern English dialectal term (lake)/), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or * a shortening of (skylark) (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in .Synonyms
* whim, especially in phrase on a whimDerived terms
* on a larkReferences
* *Anagrams
*narked
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(head)Anagrams
* * * * *nark
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(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!