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Nagging vs Windy - What's the difference?

nagging | windy |

As nouns the difference between nagging and windy

is that nagging is the action of the verb nag while windy is fart.

As adjectives the difference between nagging and windy

is that nagging is causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance while windy is accompanied by wind.

As a verb nagging

is present participle of lang=en.

nagging

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb nag .
  • * 1998 , Norah Lillian Lewis, Dear editor and friends (page 127)
  • After breakfast it takes a stout heart and strong nerve to tackle the burden of dishwashing, separator, milk things, disorderly house, interspersed with quarrels, naggings , and interruptions of the children

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}

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    windy

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (wind) (weather condition) + (-y).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Accompanied by wind.
  • It was a long and windy night.
  • Unsheltered and open to the wind.
  • They made love in a windy bus shelter.
  • Empty and lacking substance.
  • They made windy promises they would not keep.
  • Long-winded; orally verbose.
  • Flatulent.
  • The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy .
  • (slang) Nervous, frightened.
  • * 1995 , (Pat Barker), The Ghost Road'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 848:
  • The thing is he's not windy, he's a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Antonyms
    * (accompanied by wind) calm, windless

    Noun

    (windies)
  • (colloquial) fart
  • Etymology 2

    From + (-y).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.