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Narked vs Narced - What's the difference?

narked | narced |

As verbs the difference between narked and narced

is that narked is past tense of nark while narced is past tense of narc.

As an adjective narced is

exhibiting impaired judgement while scuba diving, due to nitrogen narcosis.

narked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (nark)

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    nark

    English

    (wikipedia nark)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nak.

    Alternative forms

    * narc

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang) A police spy or informer.
  • * 1912 , , Act I,
    • 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)
  • (slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
  • (slang) To annoy or irritate.
    • It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.
  • (slang) To complain.
    • He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.
  • (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
    • Nark it! I hear someone coming!
    Synonyms
    * * tattle

    Etymology 2

    See narc

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (narcotics officer).

    • References

    * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

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    narced

    English

    Etymology 1

    see narc

    Verb

    (head)
  • (narc)
    • Usage notes
    * Frequently constructed as "narced on" or "narced out."
    Quotations
    * 1994: Shaggy Doo, FASCIST RAID IN MONTANA in alt.drugs *: My roommate and I, along with two other people in our dorm got narced out by some bitch who works w/ the police. * 2005: Meg Cabot, The Mediator
  • 6: Twilight
    • *: I also knew, however, what Paul would do if he found out I'd narced on him. * 2006: Michael, Former WCW Miss Nitro arrested again... thanks to MySpace in rec.sport.pro-wrestling *: Anyhow, who narced on these two the first time?

    Etymology 2

    from nitrogen narcosis

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • exhibiting impaired judgement while scuba diving, due to nitrogen narcosis
    • On his first dive, Ralph got really narced , and thought he was turning into a sea turtle.
  • * 1996: Karen Burge, (was: will you get narced?) maybe...maybe not in rec.scuba
    • While doing a test in a chamber to assess the pressure at which one will get narced' seems like a great idea, it is not necessarily an indicator of who will get ' narced at what depth.
  • * 1998: Ray Jones, Narcosis in bit.listserv.scuba-l
    • There has been only one time that I felt narced and strangley it was in 127 of water.
  • * 2003: , uglymoney, Narcosis at 110? in rec.scuba
    • All went well. However I am absolutely convinced that I was narced .

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