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Nag   /næg/   Listen
noun
Nag  n.  
1.
A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse, especially one that is of inferior breeding or useless.
2.
A paramour; in contempt. (Obs.)


Nag  n.  A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.


verb
Nag  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. nagged; pres. part. nagging)  To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. (Colloq.) "She never nagged."





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"Nag" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lady had eliminated herself from my field I did not see but that Daniel and I might taper off into at least an armed neutrality. If he continued to nag me, it would be wholly of his own free ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... woman's instinct had done the trick. As by a miracle the hopeless had come to pass. The helm had been put hard over, and the craft had answered as sweetly as any swish-tailed circus nag. Gramarye and all her works, if not forgotten, had in the twinkling of an eye become the fabric of a dream—mere relics of a fantastic age for a sane ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... Black Prince, which terminated with the glorious battle of Cressy and the capture of Calais. "Hoblers" were a sort of yeomanry who, by the terms of their tenure of land were bound to keep a light "nag" for military service. ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter
... niceish nag you gave Frank this morning," he said to his uncle. "I was looking at him before dinner. He is ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope
... the forest far back from the settlement, I caught a flying glimpse of Lincoln green; and Hortense went through the woods, hard as her Irish hunter could gallop, followed by the blackamoor, churning up and down on a blowing nag. Once I had the good luck to restore a dropped gauntlet before the blackamoor could come. With eyes alight she threw me a flashing thanks and was off, a sunbeam through the forest shades; and something was thumping under a velvet waistcoat faster than the greyhound's pace. A moment later, back ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut


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