Meaning

A small horse; a pony..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small horse; a pony.
2. An old, useless horse.
3. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
4. (ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
5. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
6. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
7. Someone or something that nags.
8. A repeated complaint or reminder.

Example Sentences

We used to lure the nags into the back of our truck with oats and sugar, then we'd drive back to town to this warehouse and inject the nags with small quantities of morphine I'd stolen.

Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!

Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

The room is never cleaned, so her mother nags and nags until she explodes with frustration and threatens to sell her to the lowest bidder.

The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

I guess it happens all the time in crime stories where the detective suddenly remembers a bit of conversation that nags him in some way, then for some inexplicable reason, it's just right there in front of you, like a sign pointing 'here!

Sometimes I write because there is a question that nags at me, sometimes because there is a question that nags at other people.

You are sleeping on your side in the bed in your flat, heavily embroiled in a dream which sucks and nags at you and makes no sense; an old primary school teacher is there and a cat you have to take to a supermarket; you are in a canoe.

Word Forms

• nags
• nagging
• nagged

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Use nag when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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