Nark vs Ark - What's the difference?
nark | ark |
(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.
A large box with a flat lid.
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) The ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge
A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
(Judaism) A consecrated container.
As a noun 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.As a proper noun ark is
the boat built by the biblical noah to carry himself and the animals of the planet during the ).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!
