We used to lure thenags into the back of our truck with oats and sugar, then we'd drive back to town to this warehouse and inject thenags with small quantities of morphine I'd stolen.
The notion that he forgot somethingnagged him the rest of the day.
2010, John David Wells,Diamonds of Affection and Other Stories,→ISBN, page100:
I guess it happens all the time in crime stories where the detective suddenly remembers a bit of conversation thatnags him in some way, then for some inexplicable reason, it's just right there in front of you, like a sign pointing 'here!
2010, John Goldingay,Key Questions about Christian Faith: Old Testament Answers,→ISBN:
Sometimes I write because there is a question thatnags at me, sometimes because there is a question thatnags at other people.
2013, Ra Page, L.E. Yates, Ann Winter,Parenthesis: A New Generation in Short Fiction:
You are sleeping on your side in the bed in your flat, heavily embroiled in a dream which sucks andnags 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.
To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
1999, Tim Parks,Adultery and Other Diversions,→ISBN:
But at night, around the uncertain edge of dreams, and when the windnags, there are few whom an odd sound will not thrill
When a breeze comes up andnags the surface, it sparkles like a gemstone.
2014, James Lane Allen,The Last Christmas Tree: An Idyl of Immortality,→ISBN, page 8:
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.
'That fellow is anag.' 'Aye, the worst kind,' agreed Hamish, and then smiled, and at that smile, Miss Gunnery thawed even more.
2014, Louise Hathaway,Nags, Sluts, and A Deep-Breasted Soulmate from the Shining City,→ISBN:
When we see Wolfe struggling with many depictions of woman characters throughout the novel (the earlier ones beingnags and white trash), we greatly admire the development of this living tribute to Aline Bernstein, a woman whom he ends up despising in his later life.
2015 -, Dwight McNeill,Using Person-Centered Health Analytics to Live Longer,→ISBN:
But, pchA has to produce more than awareness, always-on alerts/nags, or edu-tainment.
A repeated complaint or reminder.
2011, Mike Bryant, Peter Mabbutt,Hypnotherapy For Dummies,→ISBN:
And finally the biggest thank you of all to my partner Steven Winston for your love, enthusiasm, encouragement, support, humour,nags, and glasses of wine.
2015, Steve Brookstein,Getting Over the X,→ISBN, page58:
I turned it on Eileen and threw in a couple of my normalnags about her driving.
2016, Suzie Hayman, John Coleman,Parents and Digital Technology: How to Raise the Connected Generation,→ISBN:
A girl who expects her mother to nag her about her untidy bedroom will hear that message, even though the mother may want to talk about something quite different, so a loving invitiation to go shopping that started "When you've finished in your bedroom this morning. . ." might result in the child screaming, storming out and slamming the door because she expected this to be anag about the state of the room and didn't let you finish with “ . . . shall we go to the shopping centre?”.
All that while there was a littlenag going on at the back of his mind, which he strove to disregard. But it insisted on attention, and to get rid of it he put down his palette abruptly and got out his mustard-tin cash-box and counted his money.
2009, James Swift,How I Survived Three Years at a Two-Year Community College,→ISBN:
During my lengthy aerobic strolls (which more or less served as a tool of meditation), that thought about “college” became a persistentnag.
2014, Graham Allcott,How to be a Productivity Ninja,→ISBN:
There are two ways to get rid of ournags. We can either use Ninja decision-making to turn them quickly into actions, stored in our second brain to be revisited when we have some time. Or we can simply just capture and collect thenag, knowing that our systems will ensure we return to it later.
2016, Sarah Lowndes,The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing,→ISBN:
Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Considered native Hmongic by Ratliff, though no reconstructed proto-form is given.[2] Perhaps a semantic extension of Etymology 1 - that is, with the arrival of rain signifying a different day from the current day? Or perhaps even a fossilization of an older meaning of "sky, day" (compare the Proto-Mon-Khmer term mentioned in Etymology 1)?”
