单词 | nag |
释义 | nag 1. v. & n. --v (nagged, nagging)   1. a tr. annoy or irritate (a person) with persistent fault-finding or continuous urging. b intr. (often foll. by at) find fault, complain, or urge, esp. persistently.   2. intr. (of a pain) ache dully but persistently.   3. a tr. worry or preoccupy (a person, the mind, etc.) (his mistake nagged him). b intr. (often foll. by at) worry or gnaw. --n a persistently nagging person. Derivatives nagger n. naggingly adv. Etymology: of dial., perh. Scand. or LG, orig.: cf. Norw. & Sw. nagga gnaw, irritate, LG (g)naggen provoke 2. n.   1. colloq. a horse.   2. a small riding-horse or pony. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. |
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