nagger
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nagger
Example Sentences
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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
Owen didn't get along with them, and couldn't have done so, because he's a nagger, and no self-respecting workman will stand for a nagger.
From The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat by Durham, Victor G.
The Ensign was a little, meagre, freckled woman, whose wisps of colourless hair and tight drawn-down lips suggested that in the secular world she would have been bedraggled and a nagger.
From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
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