Tattle vs Nark - What's the difference?
tattle | nark | Synonyms |
(pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
To chatter.
* 1599 ,
* Dryden
A tattletale.
Gossip; idle talk.
(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.
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
- 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 .
- the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative
Synonyms
* blow the whistle, rat on, sing, snitch, squeal * gossip; see alsoNoun
(-)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!