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Traditional English :: nark
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narkissist.html - n. & v. Brit. sl. --n. 1 a police informer or decoy.
2 Austral. an annoying person or thing. --v.tr. (usu. in passive) annoy; infuriate (was narked by their attitude). nark it! stop that! [Romany nak nose] |
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Traditional English :: narky
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narkissist.html - adj.
(narkier, narkiest) sl. bad-tempered, irritable. [NARK] |
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English Idioms :: narrow down
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narkissist.html - {v. phr.} To limit within very strict margins. * /Of the numerous applicants, the list has been narrowed down to just a few./ |
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English Idioms :: narrow escape
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narkissist.html - {n. phr.} An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. * /If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!/ |
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English Idioms :: narrow-minded
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narkissist.html - {adj. phr.} Limited in outlook; resistant to new ideas; bigoted. * /He is generally very open about everything, but when it comes to politics, he is terribly narrow-minded./ |
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English Idioms :: nary a
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narkissist.html - {informal} Not a single; not one; never a. * /One afternoon a large dark cloud came in the sky. John thought it would rain so he took his raincoat - but nary a drop fell./ * /John went fishing but he caught nary a one./ |
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