Define the word nagging"Nagging" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Nagging \Nag"ging\ (n[a^]g"g[i^]ng), a.
Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging
toothache. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
"Nagging" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Nag \Nag\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Nagged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nagging.] [Cf. Sw. nagga to nibble, peck, Dan. nage to
gnaw, Icel. naga, gnaga, G. nagen, & E. gnaw.]
To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to
fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] "She never nagged." --J.
Ingelow.
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"nagging" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
nag
n 1: someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly
finding fault [syn: scold, scolder, nagger, common scold]
2: an old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, plug]
v 1: bother persistently with trivial complaints; "She nags her
husband all day long" [syn: peck, hen-peck]
2: worry persistently; "nagging concerns and doubts"
3: remind or urge constantly; "she nagged to take a vacation"
[also: nagging, nagged]
"nagging" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
nagging
adj : continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife";
"nagging parents" [syn: shrewish]
"nagging" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
nagging
See nag
"nagging" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "nagging":
adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
bad press, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery,
cajoling, captious, captiousness, carping, catty, cavil, caviling,
censoriousness, chronic, coaxing, continual, continuous, critical,
criticism, cynical, demanding, distressing, dunning, exception,
faultfinding, flak, fretful, hairsplitting, haunting, hit,
home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness,
hypercriticism, importunate, importunateness, importunity,
imputation, indelible, insistent, knock, naggy, niggle, niggling,
nit, nit-picking, obloquy, obsessive, overcritical,
overcriticalness, peevish, persistent, pestering, pettifogging,
pettish, petulant, plaguing, plying, pressing, pressure,
priggishness, querulous, quibble, quibbling, rap, recurrent,
recurring, reflection, relentless, reproachfulness, resentful,
shrewish, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, teasing,
trichoschistic, trichoschistism, ultracritical, unforgettable,
unrelenting, urgency, urgent, urging, vixenish, vixenly,
wheedling
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