Narky vs Nasky - What's the difference?

narky | nasky |

As adjectives the difference between narky and nasky

is that narky is irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging while nasky is nasty.

narky

English

Adjective

(er)

(UK, Australia, slang) Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.

* 1995 , , The Cast Iron Shore , Granta, 1998, page 61,

The war had made Stan narkier than ever.

* 2003 , Justine Larbalestier, A Buffy Confession'', Glenn Yeffeth (editor), ''Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show , BenBella Books, US, page 83,

I?m now one of those people I used to defend the show against. There is no one more bitter than an ex-true believer. Color me narky and picky.

* 2005 , Maxim Jakubowski (editor), The Best British Mysteries 2005 , page 191,

It was a special request and Mrs. Fleming had to do it all on the spot, so that?s made her even more narky than usual.

* 2005 , , page 141,

Foolishly, I went to the National Right dinner last night. What a narky , miserable bunch of sods.

* 2008 , , Champagne Kisses , page 46,

I had to endure the narkiest taxi driver complaining about ‘Foreign lads takin? taxi plates’, who then managed to test my patience even more by leaving me a good walk from Parker?s apartment block.

* 2008 , Claudia Carroll, Do You Want to Know a Secret? , Random House, UK, unnumbered page,

Age is definitely making me narkier . The only difference between me and my moany Auntie Maisie is a plaid shopping trolley and a tracheotomy.