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[syn: shrewish, nagging]
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.]
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nagging
adj 1: continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish
wife"; "nagging parents" [syn: shrewish, nagging]
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