Narc vs Nark - What's the difference?
narc | nark | Alternative forms |
(slang)
(slang) To suffer from impaired judgment due to nitrogen narcosis (e.g. while scuba diving).
(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.
Nark is a alternative form of narc.
As nouns the difference between narc and nark
is that narc is a narcotics squad police officer while nark is a police spy or informer.As verbs the difference between narc and nark
is that narc is an alternative spelling of lang=en while nark is to serve or behave as a spy or informer.narc
English
(wikipedia narc)Etymology 1
Abbreviation of "narcotics officer".Etymology 2
Alternate spelling of .Verb
(en verb)- “If you narc on me, I’ll rip your arms off”, said Tim to his little brother, as he passed him a cigarette.
See also
* stool pigeonEtymology 3
Short for "narcosis", etymologically related to the first etymology (from "narcotics officer") but instead referring to the medical condition of nitrogen narcosis rather than to narcotics.Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
*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!