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noun nɑːknɑrk informal 1British A police informer. Example sentencesExamples - Reluctant nark Adriana is forced to turn to an FBI agent for company.
- I wonder if the Canadian police could consider invoicing narks directly?
- Then the copper whips off a little advert looking for narks to come forward over this purely political offence.
- The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
- Not that the Chancellor is short of narks in this part of the world.
- Most of the narks and whingers have actually left Sydney.
- Dick Turpin is no coppers' nark so have the courage of your convictions to stand and deliver your reasons.
2Australian NZ An annoying person or thing. Example sentencesExamples - I admit I can be a nark on the park sometimes but I hate seeing people losing and still looking happy.
- He would have made his point, saved the pain of being painted a tax nark, while exploiting the Coalition's leadership tension.
Synonyms irritant, source of irritation, source of vexation, annoyance, source of annoyance, thorn in someone's flesh, thorn in someone's side, pinprick, pest, bother, trial, torment, plague, inconvenience, nuisance, bugbear, menace
verb nɑːknɑrk [with object]British informal Cause annoyance to. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Well it's nothing I've cultivated,’ he says, a bit narked.
- This narked a few people, including his apparently unpaid vet and a group who claimed that the animals on his ranch were being treated cruelly.
- Young lady also proceeded to nark me by fidgeting continuously.
- This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
- Reviewers, for instance, were narked that the special effects were not all that special.
- Divers even pick up these dozy little sharks, but if you do that you will find yourself with a suddenly alert fish that is probably a bit narked at being disturbed.
- I was afraid they might have been a bit narked that we didn't tell them
- Now turned 70, he says he passes for mid-50s and is narked that I've pointed out a stiffness in his gait.
- I'd put in eight weeks of training, but the controversy has narked me a bit.
- I've been narked off with studio trailers for years.
- Also I am narked by the fact that they didn't seem to put too much effort into clearing out my room to make space for my stuff, so I have about half a wardrobe and just no space.
- I know what's ‘got into her’ - she's narked about what we said regarding Talos.
- So, well done, your girlfriend, for finding a humorous card that actually did the trick - and I'm not at all surprised that she's narked that you just chucked it out.
- Am most narked at lack of wireless stuff going on here.
- After a few moments the problem was obvious and proved that the 1996 team hadn't been totally narked when they reported that the rigging was still upright and intact.
- This lay-off still narks him, and he grumbles before saying it has been ‘forgotten’.
- There were still narked at what the weather had done to their tracks and overhead cables and were holding up the commuters.
- At that point I had yet to meet an atheist who wasn't narked by the whole thing.
- All this has got the genuine aromatherapists a bit narked.
- I'm a bit narked the Boro game was called off on Wednesday.
Synonyms annoyed, irritated, cross, angry, vexed, exasperated, irked, piqued, displeased, put out, fed up, disgruntled, in a bad mood, in a temper, testy, in high dudgeon, huffy, in a huff, resentful, aggrieved
Origin Mid 19th century: from Romany nāk 'nose'. The original meaning of nark was ‘an annoying or troublesome person’, a sense which survives in Australia and New Zealand, and in the verb nark, ‘to annoy’. The word is from Romany nok or nak, ‘nose’. Snout and snitch (L17th, of unknown origin) are other words that mean both ‘nose’ and ‘informer’, and the word nosy itself implies an inappropriate interest in other people's business.
Rhymes arc, ark, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, lark, macaque, marc, mark, marque, narc, Newark, park, quark, sark, shark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach nounnärknɑrk informal 1British A police informer. Example sentencesExamples - I wonder if the Canadian police could consider invoicing narks directly?
- Dick Turpin is no coppers' nark so have the courage of your convictions to stand and deliver your reasons.
- Not that the Chancellor is short of narks in this part of the world.
- Then the copper whips off a little advert looking for narks to come forward over this purely political offence.
- Most of the narks and whingers have actually left Sydney.
- The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
- Reluctant nark Adriana is forced to turn to an FBI agent for company.
2Australian NZ An annoying person or thing. Example sentencesExamples - I admit I can be a nark on the park sometimes but I hate seeing people losing and still looking happy.
- He would have made his point, saved the pain of being painted a tax nark, while exploiting the Coalition's leadership tension.
Synonyms irritant, source of irritation, source of vexation, annoyance, source of annoyance, thorn in someone's flesh, thorn in someone's side, pinprick, pest, bother, trial, torment, plague, inconvenience, nuisance, bugbear, menace
verbnärknɑrk [with object]British informal Annoy or exasperate. I was narked at being pushed around Example sentencesExamples - Young lady also proceeded to nark me by fidgeting continuously.
- This narked a few people, including his apparently unpaid vet and a group who claimed that the animals on his ranch were being treated cruelly.
- I've been narked off with studio trailers for years.
- All this has got the genuine aromatherapists a bit narked.
- I know what's ‘got into her’ - she's narked about what we said regarding Talos.
- This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
- This lay-off still narks him, and he grumbles before saying it has been ‘forgotten’.
- At that point I had yet to meet an atheist who wasn't narked by the whole thing.
- After a few moments the problem was obvious and proved that the 1996 team hadn't been totally narked when they reported that the rigging was still upright and intact.
- There were still narked at what the weather had done to their tracks and overhead cables and were holding up the commuters.
- I was afraid they might have been a bit narked that we didn't tell them
- Divers even pick up these dozy little sharks, but if you do that you will find yourself with a suddenly alert fish that is probably a bit narked at being disturbed.
- Now turned 70, he says he passes for mid-50s and is narked that I've pointed out a stiffness in his gait.
- ‘Well it's nothing I've cultivated,’ he says, a bit narked.
- Am most narked at lack of wireless stuff going on here.
- So, well done, your girlfriend, for finding a humorous card that actually did the trick - and I'm not at all surprised that she's narked that you just chucked it out.
- Reviewers, for instance, were narked that the special effects were not all that special.
- I'd put in eight weeks of training, but the controversy has narked me a bit.
- Also I am narked by the fact that they didn't seem to put too much effort into clearing out my room to make space for my stuff, so I have about half a wardrobe and just no space.
- I'm a bit narked the Boro game was called off on Wednesday.
Synonyms annoyed, irritated, cross, angry, vexed, exasperated, irked, piqued, displeased, put out, fed up, disgruntled, in a bad mood, in a temper, testy, in high dudgeon, huffy, in a huff, resentful, aggrieved
Origin Mid 19th century: from Romany nāk ‘nose’. |