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nark
verb- to annoy UK, 1888
- I’m a dirty dog, Ella–I shouldn’t have said a lousy thing like that to you. But it narked me seeing you with that flash cow. — Norman Lindsay, The Cousin from Fiji, p. 218, 1945
- This made me a little narked, then I realised that I was only young and he wouldn’t have thought that I was applying for the job myself. — A.B. Facey, A Fortunate Life, p. 190, 1981
- The stewardess couldn’t help glancing at my dishevelled appearance, which narked me because am always clean underneath[.] — Jonathan Gash, The Ten Word Game, p. 40, 2003
- to thwart AUSTRALIA, 1891
- [N]ot to mention the fact that Waldo occupied a room with elder brother, Bags, who might nark the whole thing by waking up and putting them away to Pa Peddler. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 120, 1947
- to complain, to grumble UK, 1916
- There is consistent narking and arguing in the outside world about who gets what, where and when. — David Ervine, Northern Ireland Assembly, 15 December 1999
- to nag NEW ZEALAND
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 69, 1984
- to act as an informer UK, 1859
- [S]ome of the less intellectually fortunate of their sex had a nasty habit of getting involved in the whole only god thing to the extent of narking on their sisters. — www.bbc.co.uk, 30 March 2002: “The guide to life, the universe and everything”
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