All nag synonyms
nag
N n verb nag
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- scold β to find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
- irritate β to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- berate β If you berate someone, you speak to them angrily about something they have done wrong.
- hector β Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- irk β to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- vex β to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- badger β A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- fuss β an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- urge β to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- prod β to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- nudge β to annoy with persistent complaints, criticisms, or pleas; nag: He was always nudging his son to move to a better neighborhood.
- ride β to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- needle β a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
- dog β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- importune β to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
- eat β to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
- bait β Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- harry β to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
- heckle β to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- upbraid β to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.
- goad β a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- provoke β to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
- egg β the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- bug β A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- find fault β a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- give a hard time β a period of difficulties or hardship.
- pick at β to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- take it out on β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- work on β exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- harass β to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- bother β If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- disturb β to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
noun nag
- mustang β a small, hardy horse of the American plains, descended from Spanish stock.
- steed β a horse, especially a high-spirited one.
- excruciation β Some excruciating pain.
- fishwife β a woman who sells fish.
- badgerer β One who badgers.
- backbiter β to attack the character or reputation of (a person who is not present).
- tormentor β a person or thing that torments.
- she-devil β a woman who resembles a devil, as in extreme wickedness, cruelty, or bad temper.