| 单词 | copper's nark |
| 释义 | > as lemmascopper's nark a. An informer; spec. (more fully copper's nark) a police informer. Cf. nose n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer setter1630 nose1789 mouchard1802 rat1818 stool-pigeon1830 knark1851 police informer1851 nark1859 telegraph1864 copper1885 sarbut1897 Noah's Ark1898 stool1906 snout1910 finger1914 policeman1923 stoolie1924 shelf1926 grass1929 grasshopper1937 grasser1950 stukach1969 supergrass1975 1859 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Nark [printed Nard], a person who obtains information under seal of confidence, and afterwards breaks faith. 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Nark, a person in the pay of the police; a common informer. 1879 Notes & Queries 24 May 406 Copper's nark, a police spy. 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 260 He resolved to..become a nark—a copper's nark—which is a police spy or informer. 1916 G. B. Shaw Pygmalion i. 110 It's a—well, it's a copper's nark, as you might say. What else would you call it? A sort of informer. 1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. 31 He was a nark, nose, snout, grass, squeaker, or whatever coarse word is current for it. 1994 Daily Mail 29 Sept. 10/4 The concerned citizen in the leafy suburbs who alerts the police to criminal activity is the ‘copper's nark’ in some other areas. < as lemmas |
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