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Nag Related V Dialectal Gnaw English Horse Næg

单词 nag
音标 [næg]
解释 v.唠叨,烦扰
红宝书 【英】 v. 唠叨,烦扰(to find fault or complain)
【记】 与gnaw(啃,咬)有关
【例】 She kept nagging her husband for a new car.
字源 nag (v.)
"annoy by scolding," 1828, originally a dialectal word meaning "to gnaw" (1825), probably ultimately from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse gnaga "to complain," literally "to bite, gnaw," dialectal Swedish and Norwegian nagga "to gnaw"), from Proto-Germanic *gnagan, related to Old English gnagan "to gnaw" (see gnaw). Related: Nagged; nagger; nagging.
nag (n.)
"old horse," c.1400, nagge "small riding horse," of unknown origin, perhaps related to Dutch negge, neg (but these are more recent than the English word), perhaps related in either case to imitative neigh. Term of abuse is a transferred sense, first recorded 1590s.
不择手段背单词 v. 不断找岔、抱怨、责骂而产生烦恼
【记】拼音: 那个, 在你的身边总是这个那个的-不断烦扰.
【反】nagging(adj 唠叨挑剔的)-tonic(adj 激励的; 滋补的)
趣味全助记 【记】音:奶咯,奶奶总爱咯咯咕咕唠叨

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