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Definitions: Nark |
NarkNoun1. (British) an informer or spy working for the police. 2. A lawman concerned with narcotics violations. Verb1. Cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations: "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves". 2. Inform or spy (for the police). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
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Health | Pressure-induced vertigo causing a loss of sense of direction and incoordination of muscular movements experienced by divers breathing compressed air at pressures equivalent to 45 m or more. (references) |
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Synonyms: NarkSynonyms: copper's nark (n), narc (n), narcotics agent (n), annoy (v), bother (v), chafe (v), devil (v), get at (v), get to (v), gravel (v), irritate (v), nettle (v), rag (v), rile (v), vex (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nark |
| English words defined with "nark": copper's nark. (references) |
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| "Nark" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Nark" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "nark": copper's nark. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nark | 12 |
movie nark | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njoftoj (advertise, advertize, advise, announce, break, communicate, convey, cry, give out, inform, instruct, message, notify, page, placard, post, report, tell), specialist (connoisseur, specialist), mjeshtër (artificer, artisan, artist, dab, jack of all trades, master, mechanic, nailer, old hand, overseer, workman), hetues (coroner, inquisitional, inquisitiveness, inquisitor, interrogator, investigative, investigator, investigatory, searching). (various references) | |
Arabic | مخبر, وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, peachy, rat, rubricate, sing, sneak, snitch, tale, tattle, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), جاسوس (courier, emissary, nose, operative, sleuth, spy, stool pigeon). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шпионин (intelligencer, lurcher, nose, secret agent, spy), агент (agent, broker, factor, feeler, implement, investigator, minister, plant, procurator). (various references) | |
Czech | rýpat (carp, dig, nag, poke), protiva (beast, blighter, horror, nasty, nuisance, pig, pill, reverse, set off), práskat (slash), otravovat (annoy, bore, bother, bug, hassle, nag, peeve, pester, worry), otrava (bitch, bore, bother, business, chore, drag, pain, pest, poison, spoilsport, tedium), fízl (finger, informer, snooper), donášet (peach, round, tell tales), špicl (spitz dog). (various references) | |
French | stupe, se ficher en boule, moucharder, ficher en boule. (various references) | |
German | spitzel (grass, informer, police spies, police spy, snooper, snout, spy, stool pigeon). (various references) | |
Greek | σπιούνοσ (informer, sneak, snoop), χαφιέσ (informer, stool pigeon). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"לשין (betray, calumniate, inform against, slander, sneak, tell on, tell tales). (various references) | |
Hungarian | spicliskedik (blew, blown, to blow, to put the pot on, to sneak, to snoop, to squeak), rendõrspicli, rendõrségi besúgó. (various references) | |
Italian | informatore della polizia. (various references) | |
Manx | sleetch (deceitful person, loiterer, loiterer with intent, lurker, slime, slippery person, sneak). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arknay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | narinas, contrariar (antagonize, balk, contradict, counteract, counterwork, displeasure, frustrate, oppose, ruffle, spite, tease, thwart, upset). (various references) | |
Romanian | copoi (bloodhound, bull, ferret, hound, nose, Ranger, retriever, slop, tracker, trap), agent de poliţie (beagle, detective, Dick, nose, policeman, shadow, slop, trap). (various references) | |
Russian | сыщик (bloodhound, detective, ferret, plain-clothes man, plainclothesman, plant, sleuth, snoop, trap), шпик (beagle, fink, plain-clothes man), доносчик (checker, delator, denunciator, fink, informer, noser, rat, sneak, sneaker, snitch, squeaker, squeal, squealer, tattletale, whistle-blower, whistler), доносить (denounce, inform, inform against, nose on, report, sneak, tell on). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prijavljivač (informer), dostavljač (delator, deliverer, fink, informant, informer, rat, squealer, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattler, tattletale). (various references) | |
Spanish | soplón (fink, grass, informer, sneak, sneaky, snitch, squealer, tattler, telltale), enojar (anger, annoy, displease, put out), denunciar (accuse, blow on, denounce, denuntiate, drive, inform, inform against, shop, squeal). (various references) | |
Swedish | tjallare (fink, squeaker, squealer), angivare (denouncer, denunciator, informer, noser). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้สืบข่าว, รบกวน (annoy, badger, bug, bug one, harass, hassle, irk, itch, jar, molest, narc). (various references) | |
Turkish | narkotik ajanı, muhbir (delator, denunciator, finger, finger man, informant, informer, intelligencer, rat, reporter, setter, snout, split, squealer, squealler, stooge, stool pigeon, tipster), hırsızları ele veren kimse. (various references) | |
Ukranian | стукач, шпигун (bull, emissary, fink, nose, overlooker, shadow, spy), писати доноси, детектив (detective, sleuth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mật thám (bull, busy, cop, copper, informer, lurcher, pig), cò m"i, cớm (peeler). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nark": narked, narking, narks, narky. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nark": snark. (additional references) | |
Words containing "nark": snarkier, snarkiest, snarks, snarky. (additional references) | |
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"Nark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anro, Naar, nack, nafr, Nahke, nak, naka, naki, nank, nar, narb, Narc, narch, narci, narf, narg, Nari, narj, narky, narl, narm, narn, narq, narr, nart, naru, naruk, narx, nask, nasr, Nasri, nawr, nelk, nerg, neri, nerk, nerp, nerr, neru, neuk, ngaru, nifk, nira, Niri, noerc, Nork, npro, nra, nras, nsr, nsrrki, Nukri, nurk, nyar, nzru, uark, Vark. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: karn, knar, rank. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ark, ran. | |
-2 letters: an, ar, ka, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: brank, crank, drank, frank, karns, knars, knaur, krona, narks, narky, prank, ranks, snark, trank. | |
+2 letters: anorak, banker, branks, canker, cranks, cranky, danker, darken, franks, hanker, harken, kantar, knarry, knaurs, koruna, kraken, kurgan, lanker, narked, pranks, raking, ranked, ranker, rankle, rankly, ryokan, shrank, snarks, snarky, tanker, tranks. | |
+3 letters: anoraks, arcking, bankers, barking, blanker, bracken, braking, bunraku, cankers, carking, cranked, cranker, crankle, crankly, darkens, darking, finmark, flanker, franked, franker, frankly, hankers, harkens, harking, hearken, kantars, karting, keratin, kirkman, klavern, knacker, knapper, knarred, knavery, kneader, korunas, krakens, kurgans, lankier, larking, marking, nakeder, narking, outrank, parking, pranked, racking, ramekin, rankers, rankest, ranking, rankish, rankled, rankles, ranpike, ransack, ratfink, retaken, rewaken, runback, ryokans, snakier, sneaker, spanker, swanker, tanbark, tankard, tankers, thanker, unbrake, unmaker, unraked, wakener, warking, workman. | |
+4 letters: ankerite, antirock, awakener, bankcard, bankerly, bankroll, bankrupt, barnlike, bearskin, bedarken, beraking, blinkard, brackens, brakeman, brakemen, breaking, bunrakus, cankered, charking, corncake, cracking, cracknel, crankest, crankier, crankily, cranking, crankish, crankled, crankles, crankous, crankpin, creaking, croaking, dakerhen, darkened, darkener, darkling, darkness, drunkard, finmarks, finnmark, flankers, forerank, forsaken, frankers, frankest, franking, franklin, freaking, grandkid, handwork, hankered, hankerer, harkened, harkener, hearkens, ironbark, junkyard, kaiserin, kangaroo, kartings, karyotin, keratins, kidnaper, klaverns, knackers, knackery, knappers, kneaders, knitwear, kraaling, landmark, larrikin, mandrake, markdown, markings, marksman, marksmen, minipark, neckwear, ninebark, outdrank, outranks, overrank, parkings, parkland, partaken, plankter, pranking, prankish, prefrank, qindarka, ramekins, rankings, rankling, rankness, ranpikes, ransacks, ratfinks, reawaken, reawoken, redshank, remaking, retaking, rewakens, rewaking, ringbark, runbacks, sharking, snarkier, sneakers, sneakier, spankers, sparking, stinkard, swankier, synkarya, tanbarks, tankards, thankers, tracking, trackman, trackmen, traiking, troaking, truckman, unbraked, unbrakes, unmakers, unmarked, unmasker, unpacker, unranked, wakeners, weakener, wracking, wreaking. | |
+5 letters: ankerites, anticrack, antiquark, antishark, astrakhan, awakeners, bankcards, bankrolls, bankrupts, bearskins, bedarkens, benchmark, blackener, blinkards, brainsick, breakdown, breakeven, breakings, breakneck, canebrake, cankering, cankerous, caretaken, corncakes, corncrake, cornstalk, crackdown, crackings, crackling, cracknels, cracksman, cracksmen, crankcase, crankiest, crankling, crankpins, dackering, daikering, dakerhens, darkeners, darkening, debarking, demarking, drawknife, drawnwork, drinkable, drunkards, embarking, fancywork, finnmarks, foreranks, foreshank, forsaking, frankable, frankfurt, franklins, frankness, grandkids, greenback, grimalkin, handiwork, handworks, hankerers, hankering, harkeners, harkening, hearkened, imbarking, imparking, interbank, ironbarks, junkyards, kaiserins, kangaroos, karabiner, karyotins, kashering, kidnapers, kidnapper, kingcraft, kingmaker, knackered, knaveries, knotgrass, kurrajong, lackering, lakefront, landmarks, larkiness, larrikins, mandrakes, markdowns, marketing, miniparks, newmarket, newsbreak, newsmaker, nicknamer, ninebarks, nonmarket, nonskater, outranked, overdrank, overtaken, paintwork, panickier, parklands, partaking, pickaroon, plankters, prankster, prebaking, prefranks, preshrank, qindarkas, racketing, rackingly, raincheck, rainmaker, ransacked, ransacker, reawakens, reawaking, redshanks, remarking, repacking, reparking, reracking, resoaking, retacking, rewakened, ringbarks, riverbank, scarfskin, screaking, sharkskin, shrinkage, snakebird, snakeroot, snarkiest, sneakered, snowmaker, sparkling, spikenard, spinnaker, starkness, stinkards, streaking, superbank, synkaryon, thornback, trackings, unbraking, uncracked, undertake, unmaskers, unpackers, unwarlike, urokinase, weakeners, windbreak, winemaker, workmanly, workwoman. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 72 6B |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- .-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110010 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a r k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0072 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48678477 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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