Verb: nag (nagged,nagging) nag
- Remind or urge constantly
"she nagged to take a vacation"
- Bother persistently with trivial complaints
"She nags her husband all day long";
- peck, hen-peck [informal], henpeck [informal]
- Worry persistently
"nagging concerns and doubts"
- Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
"The neighbourhood nag was always complaining about the noise from children playing";
- scold, scolder, nagger, common scold [archaic]
- An old or over-worked horse
"The old nag plodded slowly along the road";
- hack, jade, plug [N. Amer, informal]
Sounds like: knag
Derived forms: nagging, nags, nagged
Type of: complain, disagreeable person, Equus caballus, horse, hoss [US, informal], kick [informal], kvetch [N. Amer, informal], moan, plain [archaic], remind, sound off, unpleasant person, vex, worry
Encyclopedia: Nag, Martin