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someone's back up" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "raise someone's hackles" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "rub someone the wrong way" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "rub up the wrong way" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "ruffle someone's feathers" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "tags": [ "slang" ], "word": "tee off" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "tags": [ "US" ], "word": "torque off" } ], "tags": [ "slang", "transitive" ], "translations": [ { "_dis1": "0 100 0 0", "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "annoy", "word": "op iemands zenuwen werken" }, { "_dis1": "0 100 0 0", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "annoy", "word": "nerven" } ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 3, 8 ] ], "text": "He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To complain." ], "id": "en-nark-en-verb-KrL-h2SZ", "links": [ [ "complain", "complain" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ 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"word": "get someone's goat" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "get someone's Irish up" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "get someone's nanny" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "get someone's nanny-goat" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "get under one's goat" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "tags": [ "Australia", "colloquial", "vulgar" ], "word": "give someone the shits" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "grind one's gears" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "harsh one's mellow" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "put someone's back up" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "raise someone's hackles" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "rub someone the wrong way" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "rub up the wrong way" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "word": "ruffle someone's feathers" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "tags": [ "slang" ], "word": "tee off" }, { "source": "Thesaurus:annoy", "tags": [ "US" ], 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I hear someone coming!", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "To stop." ], "links": [ [ "stop", "stop" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop." ], "tags": [ "imperative", "often", "slang", "transitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/nɑːk/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "enpr": "näk", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/nɑːɹk/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "enpr": "närk", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "en-au-nark.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/En-au-nark.ogg/En-au-nark.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/En-au-nark.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)k" }, { "homophone": "narc" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "donosniča", "sense": "serve as a spy", "word": "доноснича" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "serve as a spy", "word": "verpetzen" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "serve as a spy", "word": "verraten" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "serve as a spy", "word": "turna" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "annoy", "word": "op iemands zenuwen werken" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "annoy", "word": "nerven" }, { "code": "nl", "english": "West-Flemish", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "complain", "word": "neuten" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "complain", "tags": [ "Brabantian" ], "word": "zagen" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "stop", "tags": [ "Netherlands" ], "word": "kappen" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "stop", "word": "ophouden" } ], "wikipedia": [ "nark" ], "word": "nark" } { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with homophones", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)k", "Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)k/1 syllable" ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_text": "See narc.", "forms": [ { "form": "narks", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "nark (plural narks)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "extra": "narcotics officer", "word": "narc" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer)." ], "links": [ [ "narc", "narc#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/nɑːk/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "enpr": "näk", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/nɑːɹk/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "enpr": "närk", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "en-au-nark.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/En-au-nark.ogg/En-au-nark.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/En-au-nark.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)k" }, { "homophone": "narc" } ], "wikipedia": [ "nark" ], "word": "nark" }
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