Meaning of nag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that nags.
2. A small horse; a pony.
3. A repeated complaint or reminder.
4. An old, useless horse.
5. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.
6. A paramour.
   derogatory, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“We used to lure the nags into the back of our truck with oats and sugar, then we'd drive back to town to this warehouse and inject the nags with small quantities of morphine I'd stolen.”

“Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!”

“'That fellow is a nag.' 'Aye, the worst kind,' agreed Hamish, and then smiled, and at that smile, Miss Gunnery thawed even more.”

“When we see Wolfe struggling with many depictions of woman characters throughout the novel (the earlier ones being nags and white trash), we greatly admire the development of this living tribute to Aline Bernstein, a woman whom he ends up despising in his later life.”

“But, pchA has to produce more than awareness, always-on alerts/nags, or edu-tainment.”

“And finally the biggest thank you of all to my partner Steven Winston for your love, enthusiasm, encouragement, support, humour, nags, and glasses of wine.”

“I turned it on Eileen and threw in a couple of my normal nags about her driving.”

“A girl who expects her mother to nag her about her untidy bedroom will hear that message, even though the mother may want to talk about something quite different, so a loving invitiation to go shopping that started "When you've finished in your bedroom this morning. . ." might result in the child screaming, storming out and slamming the door because she expected this to be a nag about the state of the room and didn't let you finish with “ . . . shall we go to the shopping centre?”.”

“All that while there was a little nag going on at the back of his mind, which he strove to disregard. But it insisted on attention, and to get rid of it he put down his palette abruptly and got out his mustard-tin cash-box and counted his money.”

“During my lengthy aerobic strolls (which more or less served as a tool of meditation), that thought about “college” became a persistent nag.”

“There are two ways to get rid of our nags. We can either use Ninja decision-making to turn them quickly into actions, stored in our second brain to be revisited when we have some time. Or we can simply just capture and collect the nag, knowing that our systems will ensure we return to it later.”

“That feeling turned into a very persistent nag.”

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