From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nag \Nag\, verb (used with an object) & 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nagging \Nag"ging\ (n[a^]g"g[i^]ng), adjective Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}]
verb
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}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: {shrewish}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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