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nag
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?næ?/
- (North American also) IPA(key): /ne??/, IPA(key): /n??/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English nagge, cognate with Dutch negge.
Noun
nag (plural nags)
- A small horse; a pony.
- An old, useless horse.
- Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
- (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. x. 11:
- Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!
- 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. x. 11:
Coordinate terms
- (old useless horse): bum (racing)
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from a North Germanic source; compare Swedish nagga (“to gnaw, grumble”), Danish nage, Icelandic nagga (“to complain”).
Verb
nag (third-person singular simple present nags, present participle nagging, simple past and past participle nagged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
- Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)
- To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
- The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.
- To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
- a nagging pain in his left knee
- a nagging north wind
Synonyms
- (continually remind or complain): ride
- (bother with thoughts or memories): haunt
- (persistently bother or annoy): worry
Derived terms
- nag screen
- nagware
Related terms
- gnaw
Translations
Noun
nag (plural nags)
- Someone or something that nags.
- A repeated complaint or reminder.
- A persistent, bothersome thought or worry
Synonyms
- (person who nags): See Thesaurus:shrew
Derived terms
- nagless
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
nag
- Misspelling of knack.
References
- nag at OneLook Dictionary Search
- nag in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- AGN, ANG, GAN, GNA, GaN, Gan, NGA, gan
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch nacht (“night”), from Middle Dutch nacht, from Old Dutch naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na?/
Noun
nag (plural nagte)
- The period between sunset and sunrise, when the sky is dark; night.
- (countable) darkness.
Colán
Noun
nag
- moon
Danish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?
- Rhymes: -a??
Noun
nag n (singular definite naget, not used in plural form)
- grudge
Derived terms
- bære nag
Verb
nag
- imperative of nage
Gaikundi
Noun
nag
- sago
Further reading
- Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?k
Verb
nag
- singular imperative of nagen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of nagen
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nâ??/
Adjective
n?g (definite n?g?, Cyrillic spelling ????)
- naked
Declension
Synonyms
- g?l, g?
Derived terms
- nág?st
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ná?k/
Adjective
n?g (not comparable)
- naked
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- gòl (more formal)
Derived terms
- nágost
Further reading
- “nag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *nek?e, a combination of Proto-Indo-European *ne (negative particle) and *-k?e (“and”); compare Latin neque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na?/
Particle
nag
- not (in answers and tag questions)
Usage notes
Used before a vowel, but not when that vowel has resulted from the soft mutation of g. Thus na + gallan becomes na allan, not *nag allan.
Alternative forms
- na (used before a consonant)
White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na???/
Noun
nag
- rain
Derived terms
- los nag
Wolof
Noun
nag (definite form nag wi)
- cow, cattle
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *na?k? (“otter”). Cognate with Thai ??? (nâak), Ahom ???????????? (nak).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /na?k?/
- Tone numbers: nag8
- Hyphenation: nag
Noun
nag (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography nag)
- otter
- Synonym: duznag
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off
English
Alternative forms
- offn
Etymology
From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?epo (“from, off, back”). Cognate with Scots of, af (“off, away”), West Frisian af, ôf (“off, away”), Dutch af (“off, from”), German Low German of (“off, from”), German ab (“off, from”), Danish af (“of, off”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish av (“of, off”), Icelandic af (“of, off”), Gothic ???????? (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ??? (apó, “from”), and others. Doublet of of.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f/
- (Conservative RP) IPA(key): /??f/
- (General American) enPR: ?f, IPA(key): /?f/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
- Rhymes: -??f
Adverb
off (not comparable)
- In a direction away from the speaker or object.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- (theater) Offstage.
- noises off
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
Usage notes
- off is used as an adverbial particle in a number of phrasal verbs (shake off, show off, switch off, take off, and so forth). This is not to be confused with prepositional use (e.g. jump off the table, keep off the grass; see below).
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
off (comparative more off, superlative most off)
- Inoperative, disabled.
- Antonym: on
- Cancelled; not happening.
- The party's off because the hostess is sick.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Your feet will feel better once those tight boots are off.
- The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Antonym: fresh
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- I felt that his comments were a bit off.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- Our family used to be well off; now we're very badly off.
- How are you off for milk? Shall I get you some more from the shop?
- Started on the way.
- 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:[1]
- —Hello, Bloom. Where are you off to?
- —Hello, M’Coy. Nowhere in particular.
- 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:[1]
- Far; off to the side.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), p.151:
- He came in, took a look and squinched down into a chair in an off corner and didn’t open his mouth.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), p.151:
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
- — I'll have the chicken please.
- — Sorry, chicken's off today.
- (Britain, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- 1963, Jack Schaefer: Monte Walsh, page 174:
- The man and the horse came closer and were Sonny Jacobs of the Diamond Six and a smallish neat sorrel definitely favouring its off forefoot.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Antonym: near
- 1963, Jack Schaefer: Monte Walsh, page 174:
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Antonyms: on, leg
Derived terms
Translations
Preposition
off
- Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
- samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
Antonyms
- on
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
off (third-person singular simple present offs, present participle offing, simple past and past participle offed)
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
Translations
Noun
off (uncountable)
- (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.
Further reading
- off at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
- off on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- FFO
Central Franconian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f/
Etymology 1
From Middle High German ofte, chiefly through German oft.
Adverb
off (comparative öfter, superlative et öffste)
- (Ripuarian) often
- Synonyms: deck, (obsolete in some places, dated in others) decks
Alternative forms
- oft (Moselle Franconian)
Etymology 2
Conjunction
off
- Alternative spelling of ov
Spanish
Etymology
From English off.
Adjective
off (invariable)
- off-screen
- (theater) off-Broadway; minor-league; small-time
Derived terms
- en off
- voz en off
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