单词 | nagged |
释义 | naggedadj. Subject to nagging; downtrodden, wearied, annoyed by nagging; worn out. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adjective] > complaining > in petty or irritating way > subject to nagged1893 1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Probl. ix. 107 Existence was wearing a particularly dismal aspect on that afternoon... He felt ‘nagged’, injured, blue, out of sorts with fate. 1941 D. Thomas Let. 28 May (1987) 486 I get in such a nagged, impotent, messy state when I'm like this. 1961 M. Spark Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ii. 35 ‘Mary, don't you want to walk tidily?’ ‘Mary,’ said Sandy, ‘stop staring at the brown man.’ The nagged child looked numbly at Sandy and tried to quicken her pace. 1993 D. Robinson Good Clean Fight 397 Halfway down the strip the tail came up, grudgingly, like a nagged husband. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1893 |
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