naggle
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A minor irritant.
— So they all revolved round their trailing orbits in the sand, revolved round the naggles in their brains; all, except the sergeant.
动词 v.
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To toss the head or cause to toss the head.
— On the Pieces last Sunday they made such a rout, i That the scurrilous author would soon be found out, Then they naggled their heads, while their tails flew about.
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To niggle; to irritate or bother continually or repeatedly.
— Nothing obscene, for goodness sake, but just at the bare threshold of audibility, so that it niggles and naggles and bothers.
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To haggle; to negotiate argumentatively.
— Ye see the wives naggle aboot tripe and sheep heeds , Or washing their greens at a fountain, Where the young Nuns used to be telling their beads, And had nowt but thor sins to be countin';
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To nag, carp, or quarrel.
— Many instances occur daily in which married people go on naggling at one another—naggle, naggle, until they get into a perfect storm—though both would be heartily ashamed for any third party to know what they were quarrelling about.
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To harass or scold.
— I 'll go for my paw if folks naggle me ; an' nobody shall tech me !
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To make many minor adjustments to; to fiddle with.
— You can niggle and naggle at any set of documents and always imply that the set you might have put together would have been ever so much better.
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To claw or dig away.
— "Water! —water!" she murmured as though in prayer to it , kneeling by the hole she had naggled in the ice , dabbling her finger in the icy slush that scarce let the water through.
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