单词 | sarbut |
释义 | sarbutn. local slang. In Birmingham: a police informer. Also as v. intransitive = inform v. 4b. 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 society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)] inform1588 peach1598 whistle1599 sing1612 whiddlec1661 squeak1690 wheedle1710 whittle1735 to blow the gab1785 snitch1801 rat1810 nose1811 sing1816 gnarl1819 split1819 stag1839 clype1843 squeal1846 blow1848 to round on1857 nark1859 pimp1865 squawk1872 ruck1884 to come or turn copper1891 copper1897 sneak1897 cough1901 stool1911 tattle-tale1918 snout1923 talk1924 fink1925 scream1925 sarbut1928 grass1929 to turn over1967 dime1970 1896 Birmingham Daily Mail 17 Apr. 2/5 ‘Old Sarbot’ says that..the Corporation have no legal powers to superannuate them from the rates.] 1897 Birmingham Daily Mail 5 Aug. 3/1 I knew him as one of those men who were engaged by the police for the purpose of putting up robberies and then giving information about them... They are called touts, ‘sarbuts’ or something else. 1928 F. C. Taylor Lang. of Lags in Word-lore Oct. 122 Should one of the fraternity turn informer, he is for ever afterwards known as a nark, a sarbot, a copper. 1928 F. C. Taylor Lang. of Lags in Word-lore Oct. 124 May be she'll sarbot to the D. who clobbered the kids. 1969 R. Busby Robbery Blue iii. 24 Your sarbut's story wasn't good enough... We were fooled. 1976 R. Busby New Face in Hell viii. 110 The hand-picked city crime squad..recruited their ‘sarbuts’, the city slang for informants. 1978 Daily Mail 25 Jan. 12/2 In Birmingham an informer..is a ‘sarbutt’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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