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nag

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1. nag - Noun

2. nag - Verb

Meaning

A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse.

A paramour; -- in contempt.

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. Gough Whitlam

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort. Gordon B. Hinckley

Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. "The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. Scott Lynch

The nag is as fat as a monk-and will stop to eat at every chance, so the resemblance is no happenstance. Michael Flynn

Ellis was one of those people who constantly nag others to echo their own opinions. George Orwell

A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag. Japanese Proverb

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