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Tattle vs Nark - What's the difference?

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Nark is a synonym of tattle.



As verbs the difference between tattle and nark

is that tattle is (to report others' wrongdoings or violations) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information while nark is to serve or behave as a spy or informer.

As nouns the difference between tattle and nark

is that tattle is a tattletale while nark is a police spy or informer.

tattle

English

Verb

  • (pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
  • To chatter.
  • * 1599 ,
  • BEATRICE. He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling .
  • * Dryden
  • the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative

    Synonyms

    * blow the whistle, rat on, sing, snitch, squeal * gossip; see also

    Noun

    (-)
  • A tattletale.
  • Gossip; idle talk.
  • 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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