Nag vs Chide - What's the difference?
nag | chide |
A small horse; a pony.
An old useless horse.
(obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
* 1598 , , III. x. 11:
To repeatedly remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant matters.
To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
To bother with persistent memories.
Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.:
To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
(obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
(ambitransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
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As verbs the difference between nag and chide
is that nag is to repeatedly remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant matters while chide is to admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.As a noun nag
is a small horse; a pony or nag can be one who.nag
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) nagge'', cognate with Dutch ''neggeNoun
(en noun)- Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!
Synonyms
* (old useless horse) dobbin, hack, jade, plugCoordinate terms
* (old useless horse) bum (racing )Etymology 2
Probably from a (etyl) source; compare Swedish .Verb
(nagg)- The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.
- A nagging pain in his left knee
- A nagging north wind
Anagrams
* * * * ----chide
English
Verb
- 1591' ''And yet I was last '''chidden for being too slow.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona , .
- 1598' ''If the scorn of your bright eyne / Have power to raise such love in mine, / Alack, in me what strange effect / Would they work in mild aspect? / Whiles you '''chid me, I did love'' — Shakespeare, ''As You Like It , .
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- 1611' ''And Jacob was wroth, and '''chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? — Genesis 31:36 KJV.
- As doth a rock against the chiding flood.
- the sea that chides the banks of England