Brewer's: Nag, Nagging

Constant fault-finding. (Anglo-Saxon, gnag-an, to gnaw, bite.) We call a slight but constant pain, like a tooth-ache, a nagging pain.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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