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nark

1[nahrk]
–noun
1. British Slang. a stool pigeon or informer.
2. Chiefly Australian Slang. an annoying person.
–verb (used without object)
3. British Slang. to act as a police informer or stool pigeon.
4. Chiefly Australian Slang. to become annoyed.

Origin:
1860–65; < Romany nāk nose

nark

2[nahrk]
–noun
narc.

narc

[nahrk]
–noun Slang.
a government agent or detective charged with the enforcement of laws restricting the use of narcotics.
Also, nark.


Origin:
1965–70, Americanism; shortening of narcotic
narc or nark   (närk)   
n.   Slang
A law enforcement officer who deals with narcotics violations.

[Short for narcotics agent.]
nark 1   (närk)   
n.   Slang
Variant of narc.
nark 2   (närk)   
n.  An informer, especially a police informer.
intr.v.   narked, nark·ing, narks
To be an informer.

[Perhaps from Romany nāk, nose; see nas- in Indo-European roots.]

nark 
1859, "to act as a police informer" (v.); 1860, "police informer" (n.), probably from Romany nak "nose," from Hindi nak, from Skt. nakra, which probably is related to Skt. nasa "nose" (see nose). Sense and spelling tending to merge with unrelated narc (q.v.).
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