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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nagging \nag"ging\ na^g"gi^ng, a.
   fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging
   toothache. colloq.
   1913 webster

[2] : 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.
   1913 webster
see also:
nagged nagging 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
scold scolder nagger common scold hack jade 
plug peck hen-peck nagging nagged 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
nagging
     adj : continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife";
           "nagging parents" syn: shrewish
see also:
shrewish 
[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
nagging
     see nag
see also:
nag 
[6] : 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





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