Nagging

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nagging \Nag"ging\ (n[a^]g"g[i^]ng), a.
     Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging
     toothache. [Colloq.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nagging
       adj : continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife";
             "nagging parents" [syn: {shrewish}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nagging
       See {nag}

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