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Synonyms for narc

Most common

gravel rag chafe irk tattle

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Devil — to annoy or irritate

get to, get at, devil, rile, bother, annoy, vex, rag, irk, irritate, nettle, gravel, chafe, molest, persecute, peeve informal, pique, exasperate, rankle, roil

2. Tattle — to serve or behave as a spy or informer; to tattle

tattle, peach, sing, squeal, inform, squeak

Noun

1. Fink — A police spy or informer

rat, infiltrator, sneak, whistleblower, canary, nose, grass, stool pigeon, tattletale, tattler, snitch, informer, tell-tale, blabber, squealer, fink slang US, abaddon slang dated UK, supergrass slang UK, stoolie slang

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To serve or behave as a spy or informer; to tattle.

    I don’t trust that guy; he’s gonna nark us out.

  2. v. 2

    To annoy or irritate.

    It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.

  3. n. 1

    A police spy or informer.

Related words

Other spellings
nark

Forms

Plural
narcs → rats, infiltrators, sneaks, whistleblowers…
Past participle
narced
e.g. narced → deviled, riled, bothered, annoyed…

Example sentences

  • gravel Tom walked down the gravel road towards his farm.
  • rag My mother uses my father's old short as a dust rag.
  • chafe The shoes will chafe if you don't wear socks.
  • tattle I've got no respect for finks, snitches, or tattle-tales.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
narcrising
gravelfalling
ragrising
chaferising
irksteady
tattlerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
rat1, rag1, vex1, irk1
4 letters
sing1, nose1, fink1, rile1, roil1
5 letters
grass1, devil2, sneak1, peach1, annoy2, pique1, peeve1, narco2, chafe1
6 letters
bother2, inform2, gravel2, canary3, snitch1, squeak1, squeal1, nettle2, molest2, tattle2, rankle2
7 letters
abaddon, blabber2, tattler2, stoolie
8 letters
irritate3, informer3, squealer
9 letters
annoyance3, persecute3
10 letters
supergrass, exasperate4, tattletale, spoilsport
11 letters
infiltrator4
13 letters
whistleblower4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (devil2 = 2 syllables).