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nark
noun- a police informer UK, 1839
Also spelt “narc”. - ‘Cos we don’t have police-pimps about ‘ere, that’s why. You Stacey, and you’re a bloody nark. — Frank Hardy, Power Without Glory, p. 99, 1950
- GRANDPA: That young nark–you know [...] I told you. He’s gone to see the governor. I told you. — Clive Exton, No Fixed Abode [Six Granada Plays], p. 136, 1959
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 78, 1996
- an aggravating person AUSTRALIA, 1846
- She was hard to please, rather a “nark” as he put it, and easily “needled” (annoyed)[.] — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 29, 1953
- Only thing coppers’ll do for anyone is make it rotten for them. Prize narks. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 17, 1964
- a spoilsport AUSTRALIA, 1927
- — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 194, 1979
- I don’t want to sound like a nark, but mate, do you know what you are all about? — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 119, 1988
- — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 148, 1988
- “Sounds like she’s turning into a nice nark.” “She is mate. She’d give a bottle of castor oil the shits.” — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 217, 1992
- an awkward customer, one with no intention of buying UK
- — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
- a spiteful argument UK
- — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
- Our Stephen’s half having a nark with Shy. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 112, 2002
- temper; a fit of annoyance AUSTRALIA
- And crikey, if it doesn’t get people’s nark up, I’m a goanna with two tails. — Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung, p. 56, 1946
- “I’m not only fed up to the back teeth, the way the old woman goes on,” said Bill, “I’ve got the nark properly this time.” — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 79, 1947
- umbrage UK
- He took nark. — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
▶ put the nark on
to discourage UK- — Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Market Traders’ Slang, 1979
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