nag

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small horse; a pony.
  2. Someone or something that nags.
    — 'That fellow is a nag.' 'Aye, the worst kind,' agreed Hamish, and then smiled, and at that smile, Miss Gunnery thawed even more.
  3. Misspelling of knack. alt-of,misspelling
  4. An old, useless horse.
    — 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.
  5. A repeated complaint or reminder.
    — And finally the biggest thank you of all to my partner Steven Winston for your love, enthusiasm, encouragement, support, humour, nags, and glasses of wine.
  6. A paramour. derogatory,obsolete
    — Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!
  7. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.
    — All that while there was a little nag going on at the back of his mind, which he strove to disregard. But it insisted on attention, and to get rid of it he put down his palette abruptly and got out his mustard-tin cash-box and counted his money.
动词 v.
  1. To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters. ambitransitive
    — 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.
  2. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
    — The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.
  3. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
    — But at night, around the uncertain edge of dreams, and when the wind nags, there are few whom an odd sound will not thrill

词形变化

nags plural nags present,singular,third-person nagging participle,present nagged participle,past nagged past nags plural

词汇关系

衍生词
padnag shanks' nag nagavator naggable naggee nagger naggingly naggingness naggish naggy nag screen nagsome nagster nagware unnagged unnagging nagless
相关词
gnaw

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nagg, nage, nagge (“horse, small riding horse, pony”), cognate with Dutch negge, neg (“horse”), German Nickel (“small horse”). Perhaps related to English neigh.
词源 2
Probably from a North Germanic source; compare Swedish nagga (“to gnaw, grumble”), Danish nage (“to nag, bother”), Icelandic nagga (“to complain”).
Compare typologically fret, Bulgarian глождя (gloždja), Russian глода́ть (glodátʹ), грызть (gryztʹ), по́едом есть (pójedom jestʹ), е́дкий (jédkij).
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