Nag

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To annoy by constant scolding, complaining, or urging.
  • v. To torment persistently, as with anxiety or pain.
  • verb-intransitive. To scold, complain, or find fault constantly: nagging at the children.
  • verb-intransitive. To be a constant source of anxiety or annoyance: The half-remembered quotation nagged at my mind.
  • n. One who nags.
  • n. A horse, especially:
  • n. An old or worn-out horse.
  • n. Slang A racehorse.
  • n. Archaic A small saddle horse or pony.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small horse; a pony.
  • n. An old useless horse.
  • v. To repeatedly remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant matters.
  • v. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
  • v. To bother with persistent memories.
  • v. Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.:
  • n. One who nags.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse, especially one that is of inferior breeding or useless.
  • n. A paramour; -- in contempt.
  • v. To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.
  • n. A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To nick; chip; slit.
  • To irritate or annoy with continued scolding, petty faultfinding, or urging; pester with continual complaints; torment; worry.
  • To scold pertinaciously; find fault constantly.
  • n. A nick; a notch.
  • n. A horse, especially a poor or small horse.
  • n. A worthless person; as applied to a woman, a jade.
  • n. A wooden ball used in the game of shinty or hockey.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. remind or urge constantly
  • n. someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
  • n. an old or over-worked horse
  • v. bother persistently with trivial complaints
  • v. worry persistently
  • Verb Form
    nagged    nagging    nags   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remind    equus caballus    horse    sound off    kick    quetch    complain    plain    kvetch    vex   
    Variant
    nagging    nagged    nagger   
    Form
    nagged    nagging   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pony    paramour    annoy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ag    Bragg    ag    bag    bagge    brag    dag    drag    fag    flag   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    insistent    persistent    gnaw    agonize    unpleasant    inward    irritate    painful    feverish    madden