nag

Definition of nag in English English dictionary: To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse; To bother with persistent memories
The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.; Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.:; One who [[#Verb|nags]]; An old useless horse; To repeatedly remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant matters; A small horse; a pony; {n} a faddle-horse, a little or young horse; disapproval If someone nags you, they keep asking you to do something you have not done yet or do not want to do. The more Sarah nagged her, the more stubborn Cissie became My girlfriend nagged me to cut my hair She had stopped nagging him about never being home. children nagging their parents into buying things. A nag is someone who nags. Aunt Molly is a nag about regular meals. + nagging nag·ging Her endless nagging drove him away from home; {f} remind incessantly (especially of a chore); criticize relentlessly (of a fault or imperfection); pester; bother; be a persistent source of pain or nuisance; someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault; bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long"; remind or urge constantly; "she nagged to take a vacation" bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her husband all day long" worry persistently; "nagging concerns and doubts; One who nags; worry persistently; "nagging concerns and doubts; To repeatedly complain about insignificant matters; A paramour; in contempt; an old or over-worked horse; To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously; If something such as a doubt or worry nags at you, or nags you, it keeps worrying you. He could be wrong about her. The feeling nagged at him. the anxiety that had nagged Amy all through lunch Something was nagging in the back of his mind. = niggle; remind or urge constantly; "she nagged to take a vacation"; worry persistently; "nagging concerns and doubts"; A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse; {i} one who nags, pest; overworked and worn out horse; pony, small leisure horse; A small horse; an old female horse; a pony
nag champa: A sandalwood-heavy perfume oil originating in India, or incense thus perfumed
nag screen: A message displayed by a nagware program to encourage the user to purchase the full version
nag screens: plural form of nag screen
nag-screen: Attributive form of nag screen, noun
Nag Hammadi: Town in Upper Egypt on the Nile. In 1945 a collection of 13 codices containing 53 Gnostic texts (scriptures and commentaries) was found nearby at the site of an ancient settlement on the river's eastern bank. Written in the Coptic language, the texts were composed in the 2nd or 3rd century and copied in the 4th century. They include accounts of the life of Jesus and his sayings after his resurrection, predictions of the apocalypse, and theological treatises. As the only surviving documents written by Gnostics themselves, they constitute a major source of knowledge about Gnosticism
nag hammadi: a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of first-hand knowledge of Gnosticism a town in Upper Egypt
nag to death: annoy, harass constantly, bother very much
nagging: causing persistent mild pain
shank-nag: To travel on foot
shank-nag: Archaic spelling of shanks' nag
shanks' nag: Transportation by foot. To "take a shanks' nag" means using one's own legs to walk
He took shanks-naig, but fient may care.
To nag: natter
nagged: past of nag
nagger: One who nags
nagger: someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
nagger: {i} one who annoys, pest, nag, bother
nagging: continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"
nagging: {s} bothersome, annoying, incessant; criticizing relentlessly; reminding incessantly; of one who nags
nagging: Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache
nagging: present participle of nag
nagging: A nagging pain is not very severe but is difficult to cure. He complained of a nagging pain between his shoulder blades. see also nag
nagging: {i} act of reminding incessantly; act of criticizing relentlessly; act of pestering or bothering
naggingly: in a nagging manner, in a bothersome way, with constant harassment
nags: plural of nag