different between wife vs nag

English

Etymology

From Middle English wif, wiif, wyf, from Old English w?f (“woman, female, lady, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *w?b? (“woman, wife”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g?wíb?- (“shame, pudenda”) (compare Tocharian A/B kip/kw?pe (“shame, genitals, female pudenda”)). Cognate with Scots wife (“wife”), West Frisian wiif (“wife, woman”), Saterland Frisian Wieuw (“woman, lady, female”), North Frisian wüf (“wife, woman”), Dutch wijf (“woman, female”), Low German Wief (“woman, female”), German Weib (“woman, wife, female”), Danish viv (“woman”), Norwegian viv (“wife, woman, girl”), Swedish viv (“woman”), Faroese vív (“wife, woman”), Icelandic víf (“woman”).

See also woman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?f/
• Rhymes: -a?f

Noun

wife (plural wives)

1. A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
   • 1952, P. G. Wodehouse, Big Business, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 127-8.

     All through Reginald's deeply moving performance she had sat breathless, her mind in a whirl and her soul stirred to her very depths. With each low note that he pulled up from the soles of his shoes she could feel the old affection and esteem surging back into her with a whoosh, and long before he had taken his sixth bow she knew ... that it would be madness to try to seek happiness elsewhere, particularly as the wife of a man with large ears and no chin, who looked as if he were about to start in the two-thirty race at Kempton Park.
2. The female of a pair of mated animals.

3. (Scotland) Synonym of woman.

Usage notes

Although mostly used only humorously, wife can be used with the to indicate one's own wife, as in "I'd like to go, but the wife wants me home".

Synonyms

• (married woman): little woman (slang)
• See also Thesaurus:wife

Antonyms

• (married woman): husband, were (noun) (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• better half, life partner, partner, significant other, spouse, wedder

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (waifu)
  • ? English: waifu
• ? Korean: ??? (waipeu)

Translations

See also

• uxorial

Verb

wife

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular, said of men) to marry

Synonyms

• wive

See also

• wife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pages starting with “wife”.

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• fiew

Middle English

Noun

wife

1. Alternative form of wif

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wif (“woman, wife”), from Old English w?f (“woman”).

Noun

wife (plural wifes)

1. woman
2. wife

Derived terms

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)

1. A small horse; a pony.
3. An old, useless horse.

   Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
4. (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!

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)

1. (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)

1. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.

   The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

2. 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)

1. Someone or something that nags.
2. A repeated complaint or reminder.
3. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry

Synonyms

• (person who nags): See Thesaurus:shrew

Derived terms

• nagless

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

nag

1. 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)

1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when the sky is dark; night.
2. (countable) darkness.

Colán

Noun

nag

1. moon

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

nag n (singular definite naget, not used in plural form)

1. grudge

Derived terms

• bære nag

Verb

nag

1. imperative of nage

Gaikundi

Noun

nag

1. sago

Further reading

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

nag

1. singular imperative of nagen
2. (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 ????)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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

1. rain

Derived terms

• los nag

Wolof

Noun

nag (definite form nag wi)

1. 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)

1. otter

   Synonym: duznag