Nark vs Naik - What's the difference?
nark | naik |
(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 lord or governor in South Asia.
An officer (equivalent to corporal) in a corps of Indian or Nepalese soldiers.
* 1888': Also, he had to keep his temper [...] especially once when he was abused by a '''Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's ''Sais''’, ''Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)
As nouns the difference between nark and naik
is that nark is (british|slang) a police spy or informer or nark can be (narcotics officer) while naik is a lord or governor in south asia.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!