Nark vs Annoyance - What's the difference?
nark | annoyance |
(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.
(countable) That which annoys.
(countable) An act or instance of annoying.
(uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
As nouns the difference between nark and annoyance
is that nark is (british|slang) a police spy or informer or nark can be (narcotics officer) while annoyance is (countable) that which annoys.As a verb nark
is (slang) to serve or behave as a spy or informer.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!
