nagger
Americannoun
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naggers
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His jaw was trembling George Beatty I saw the nurse’s call as a chance to make up for lost time and I quickly became Todd’s long-distance support hotline – his coach, cheerleader and professional nagger.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2016
I was invited to be a nagger, and I was.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a master nagger; once, when his wife moved the piano in the living room by a few inches, he wrote her a four-page letter of reprimand.
From Time Magazine Archive
To myself he confided that his host was a nagger.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
But Milly was not a nagger, at least not with men.
From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick
"Once children become impressed," sighs a Chicago advertising executive, "they are very successful naggers."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some day he'll be dug out and then there's a heap of tattle-tales and character naggers in this town that'll find they've took the wrong channel.
From Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
I’ll have no naggers, narr-narring all day long: I’ll stand no fantigues.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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