Nark vs Jark - What's the difference?
nark | jark |
(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 seal (stamp or impression of a stamp ).
* 1818 , '', Chapter XXIX, 1839, ''The Waverley Novels , Volume 2,
(slang, military, British) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach and use a tracking device to covertly monitor its location.
* 1996 , Andy McNab, Immediate Action ,
* 2001 , Peter Taylor, Brits:the War Against the IRA ,
* 2010 , Christopher C. Harmon, Andrew N. Pratt, Sebastian Gorka, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism ,
* 2010 , Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland ,
* 1996 , William Gilmore Simms, Mary Ann Wimsatt, “Bald-Head Bill Bauldy”'', ''Tales of the South ,
As nouns the difference between nark and jark
is that nark is (british|slang) a police spy or informer or nark can be (narcotics officer) while jark is a seal (stamp or impression of a stamp ).As verbs the difference between nark and jark
is that nark is (slang) to serve or behave as a spy or informer while jark is (slang|military|british) to modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach and use a tracking device to covertly monitor its location or jark can be .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!
Synonyms
* * tattleEtymology 2
See narcReferences
* * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.Anagrams
*jark
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)page 92,
- "This is a jark from Jim Ratcliffe," said the taller, having looked at the bit of paper.
Verb
(en verb)page 365,
- At the end of the day, it was inevitable that the IRA would discover that its weapons were being jarked .
page 255,
- 'Anna' and 'Mary' were involved in operations that drew on a variety of intelligence data: ‘jarking'’; information from agents;One of the weapons, perhaps the Armalite, had been ‘' jarked ’ by the ‘Det’ and tracked for some time.
page 197,
- An especially creative method was known as “jarking ,” which involved “the placing of tiny tracking devices on weapons in arms caches so their movements can be followed.”8
page 282,
- The homes and safe houses he provided were bugged; the weapons hidden in empty houses were ‘jarked ’ so the security forces could keep track of them, and the vehicles used to ferry weapons put under close surveillance.
Usage notes
(track weaponry) Both word and practice became common during the (1968-1998).Etymology 2
From jerk.Verb
(en verb)page 323,
- First, I felt a kick in my side, and ribs; then I felt myself pulled and jarked about, by the arms and shoulders; and, when I opened my eyes and straightened myself out, to see what alligator hed got hold of me now, what should I see but a squad of four or five of our own Rigiment, all pulling at me at onst!
References
*jarking'', in ''The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z , by Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 041525938X, 9780415259385. * Toby Harnden, Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh , ISBN 0-340-71736-X