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"sense": "small horse",
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"word": "Pony"
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"word": "заяждам се"
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"word": "嘮叨"
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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"word": "hakke på"
},
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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{
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"word": "نق زدن"
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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"word": "regañar"
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
"word": "จู้จี้"
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
"word": "cằn nhằn"
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{
"_dis1": "96 2 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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"_dis1": "96 2 2",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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"text": "Sometimes I write because there is a question that nags at me, sometimes because there is a question that nags at other people.",
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"ref": "2013, Ra Page, L.E. Yates, Ann Winter, Parenthesis: A New Generation in Short Fiction:",
"text": "You are sleeping on your side in the bed in your flat, heavily embroiled in a dream which sucks and nags at you and makes no sense; an old primary school teacher is there and a cat you have to take to a supermarket; you are in a canoe.",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "old useless horse — see also dobbin",
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"code": "gl",
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"word": "trunta"
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"code": "it",
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"word": "یابو"
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"code": "fa",
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"word": "کول"
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"ref": "2010, John David Wells, Diamonds of Affection and Other Stories, →ISBN, page 100:",
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"ref": "2010, John Goldingay, Key Questions about Christian Faith: Old Testament Answers, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2013, Ra Page, L.E. Yates, Ann Winter, Parenthesis: A New Generation in Short Fiction:",
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"ref": "2014, James Lane Allen, The Last Christmas Tree: An Idyl of Immortality, →ISBN, page 8:",
"text": "We are well accustomed as we look out upon Nature at close range to see great creatures harrassed^([sic]) by little creatures. The lot of each big one seems to be in the keeping of some little one, which never quits it, nags it, stings it, wears it out, drives it desperate, makes life somewhat a burden to it and death somewhat a relief.",
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"text": "a nagging pain in his left knee"
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"text": "a nagging north wind"
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"word": "in den Ohren liegen"
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"word": "نق زدن"
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"code": "sv",
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"word": "tjata"
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
"word": "จู้จี้"
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
"word": "เซ้าซี้"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
"word": "cằn nhằn"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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{
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "complain about insignificant matters",
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"sense": "bother with memories",
"word": "натяквам"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "bother with memories",
"word": "stikke til"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "bother with memories",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "bother with memories",
"word": "kangertaa"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "bother with memories",
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{
"code": "gl",
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"code": "gl",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Nervensäge"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Keppelweib"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Meckerer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Quälgeist"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "noodneek",
"sense": "one who nags",
"word": "נוּדנִיק"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "oblātrārtrix"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "neqnequ",
"sense": "one who nags",
"word": "نقنقو"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vorčún",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ворчу́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vorčúnʹja",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ворчу́нья"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pridíra",
"sense": "one who nags",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "приди́ра"
}
],
"word": "nag"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English misspellings",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 12 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/æɡ",
"Rhymes:English/æɡ/1 syllable",
"en:Horses",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "misspelling"
},
"expansion": "nag",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "nag champa"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "knack"
}
],
"categories": [
"English misspellings"
],
"glosses": [
"Misspelling of knack."
],
"links": [
[
"knack",
"knack#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"misspelling"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnæɡ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nag.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nag.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nag.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/03/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nag.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-nag.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/neɪɡ/",
"tags": [
"North-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/nɛɡ/",
"tags": [
"North-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æɡ"
},
{
"homophone": "Knagg"
}
],
"word": "nag"
}
Download raw JSONL data for nag meaning in English (38.5kB)
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": pridirátʹsja (k) vs. к",
"path": [
"nag"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "nag",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2028",
"msg": "more than one value in \"alt\": vorčátʹ (na) vs. на",
"path": [
"nag"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "nag",
"trace": ""
}
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