Nark vs Yark - What's the difference?
nark | yark |
(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.
To make ready; prepare.
*1881 , Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland :
(obsolete) To dispose; be set in order for; be destined or intended for.
(obsolete) To set open; open.
To draw (stitches etc.) tight.
To hit, strike, especially with a cane or whip.
To crack (a whip).
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.96:
*:he would throw a Dagger, and make a whip to yarke and lash [tr. faisoit craqueter''], as cunningly as any Carter in ''France .
As verbs the difference between nark and yark
is that nark is (slang) to serve or behave as a spy or informer while yark is to make ready; prepare or yark can be to draw (stitches etc) tight.As a noun nark
is (british|slang) a police spy or informer or nark can be (narcotics officer).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
*yark
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- [...] Yet thou hast given us leather to yark , and leather to bark, [...]
