nag
Other forms: nagging; nags; nagged
When you ask for something over and over AND over again, you are nagging. If you nag your parents long enough, they'll either give in and get you a puppy, or simply refuse any pets at all — not even a goldfish.
When you nag someone, you complain and pester them. Your teacher might nag you about a late assignment, or you might nag your friend to give you back the sweater he borrowed. A thought or worry can also nag you, simply by staying in your thoughts. The word nag meant "gnaw" before the 1820s, from a Scandinavian root.
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bother persistently with trivial complaints
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remind or urge constantly“she nagged to take a vacation”type of:remindput in the mind of someone
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worry persistently
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someone who annoys people by constantly finding faultsynonyms: common scold, nagger, scold, scoldertypes:harridana scolding (even vicious) old womantype of:
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an old or overworked horse
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