fink

indic, mouchard

Personne qui révèle secrètement à la police ou à une autre autorité les fautes de quelqu’un.

En anglais simple : Someone who secretly tells the police or another authority about someone else’s wrongdoing.

• Someone in the gang was a fink.
• The fink gave their names to the police.
• They stopped trusting him after discovering he was a fink.

Synonymes : informer, snitch, rat

Expressions courantes : police fink, a dirty fink

salaud, sale type

Insulte visant une personne qu’on déteste pour sa conduite mauvaise ou injuste.

En anglais simple : A person you dislike because they behave badly or unfairly.

• That fink stole my lunch.
• What kind of fink cheats his own friends?
• She called him a rotten fink for breaking his promise.

Synonymes : jerk, rat

Expressions courantes : a rotten fink, that little fink

briseur de grève, jaune

Personne qui travaille alors que les autres salariés cessent le travail pour protester.

En anglais simple : A person who works while other workers refuse to work as a protest.

• The strikers called him a fink.
• Finks entered the factory through a side gate.
• The company hired finks to keep production going during the strike.

Synonymes : strikebreaker, scab

Expressions courantes : hire a fink, strikebreaking fink

tisserin

Sorte de tisserin vivant dans le sud de l’Afrique.

En anglais simple : A kind of weaver bird found in southern Africa.

• A fink landed on the branch.
• We watched finks build nests from grass.
• The guide identified the small bird as a fink.

Synonymes : weaver bird

Expressions courantes : a nesting fink, a southern african fink

dénoncer, moucharder

Révéler à une autorité les fautes de quelqu’un, en trahissant sa confiance.

En anglais simple : To tell an authority about someone’s wrongdoing, breaking their trust.

• Please don’t fink on me.
• Someone finked to the police about the stolen car.
• He finked on his friends to avoid punishment.

Comment l'utiliser : fink on someone (She finked on her brother for taking the money.); fink to someone (He finked to the teacher about our plan.)

Synonymes : inform, snitch, rat

Expressions courantes : fink on someone, fink to someone