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Nudge   /nədʒ/   Listen
Nudge

noun
1.
A slight push or shake.  Synonym: jog.
verb
(past & past part. nudged; pres. part. nudging)
1.
To push against gently.  Synonyms: poke at, prod.
2.
Push into action by pestering or annoying gently.



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"Nudge" Quotes from Famous Books



... had to nudge him and whisper: "Come, we're going now," otherwise he would have remained kneeling much longer in the magnificent and still cosy church, in which nothing was ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig

... to nudge each other, making whimpered explanations and commentaries, agreeing that is was mean in Dick to mind Kit, and ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various

... imaginations have nothing to do with all this? Men who are wasted with vigils and fasting"—here the secretary chuckled and made as if he would nudge the churchman in his ample paunch—"are prone to see what common men cannot. Though I protest that when I eat much cheese before retiring I have visions, too. But not ...
— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner

... nod to one another, Nor knew so wild a joy Since, leagued with the Algonquins, They fought the Iroquois; Among the sleeping soldiers They pass the silent night, And nudge, and smile, and whisper, ...
— War Rhymes • Abner Cosens

... even pace, softly murmurous in her Sunday silk, followed her son, who walked with brave front, although he was undeniably pale, up the aisle to their pew. He stood about to let his mother enter, meeting the eyes of the people as he did so; then sat down himself, and a long glance and a long nudge of shoulders passed over the meeting-house. Burr and his mother both knew it, but she sat in undisturbed serenity of pallor, and he stirred not a muscle, though a red spot ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


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