- a variation of narc.
nark
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Publicly, Colvin had little time for feminism, quoting famed reporter Martha Gellhorn’s line that “feminists nark me” in one article.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2018
That would nark you off a bit, too, wouldn’t it?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2017
From there nark will be able to reach almost all worthwhile targets in heartland Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a good deal happens after O'Leary's arrival, except that the gang gives a spying nark a tough time and both O'Leary and Woody stand to go to jail for a while.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nobody wanted to nark on Dana and have to face him the next day on the bus.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
It really narks me off when people don’t get my references.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2017
Captain Barillon was the great gentleman-apache before your time; he died in a madhouse, screaming with fear of the "narks" and receivers that had betrayed him and hunted him down.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
"I have my watch!" quoth I. "They'll think as you prigs it and hand you over to the narks an' queer cuffins—" "That sounds very terrible; what do you mean?"
From Peregrine's Progress by Farnol, Jeffery
The other side was narks an' cows an' rotters to a man; But mine was all reel bonzer chaps.
From Digger Smith by Gye, Hal
To have them narks under my very roof, abrazenin' it out!
From A Girl Among the Anarchists by Meredith, Isabel
No 10 certainly hadn't planned for their ideas to get leaked, as they were to the BBC, and were mighty narked that they had.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023
"Queen so narked she has started marking the bowls to see when the levels dipped."
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2013
Sir Alex Ferguson said scathingly of Phil Dowd, apparently narked by a spate of hard tackles from an unusually committed Arsenal side that had knocked United out of their stride.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013
Leontes looks understandably narked as he's the only one who was daft enough to bring his wife.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
It’s like to have narked this girl for life.”
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
It means royally narking off Mrs Fiver by ignoring her and watching football yet again, just hours after the end of the play-off final and everything.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2010
