Nark vs Nabk - What's the difference?
nark | nabk |
(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.
Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus , from North Africa and the Middle East; (taxlink) is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
The edible berry of (taxlink).
As nouns the difference between nark and nabk
is that nark is (british|slang) a police spy or informer or nark can be (narcotics officer) while nabk is either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus ziziphus , from north africa and the middle east; (taxlink) is supposed to be the plant from which christ's crown of thorns was made.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!
