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Nag, Nagging

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Constant fault-finding. (Anglo - Saxon, gnag-an, to gnaw, bite.) We call a slight but constant pain, like a tooth-ache, a nagging pain.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Nab-man
Nabo or Nebo
Nabob (generally called Nabob)
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Nadir
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