| nagger | | |
| n. (person) | 1. common scold, nag, nagger, scold, scolder | someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault. |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| ~ harridan | a scolding (even vicious) old woman. |
| shrew | | |
| n. (person) | 1. shrew, termagant | a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman. |
| ~ disagreeable woman, unpleasant woman | a woman who is an unpleasant person. |
| ~ virago | a noisy or scolding or domineering woman. |
| ~ yenta | (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant. |
| n. (animal) | 2. shrew, shrewmouse | small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles. |
| ~ insectivore | small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals. |
| ~ family soricidae, soricidae | shrews. |
| ~ common shrew, sorex araneus | common American shrew. |
| ~ masked shrew, sorex cinereus | commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America. |
| ~ blarina brevicauda, short-tailed shrew | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length. |
| ~ water shrew | any of several small semiaquatic shrews usually living near swift-flowing streams. |
| ~ cryptotis parva, least shrew | small brown shrew of grassy regions of eastern United States. |
| nag | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. hack, jade, nag, plug | an old or over-worked horse. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| v. (communication) | 2. hen-peck, nag, peck | bother persistently with trivial complaints.; "She nags her husband all day long" |
| ~ complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, kick | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. nag | worry persistently.; "nagging concerns and doubts" |
| ~ vex, worry | disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. nag | remind or urge constantly.; "she nagged to take a vacation" |
| ~ remind | put in the mind of someone.; "Remind me to call Mother" |
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