naggle

To toss the head or cause to toss the head.

On the Pieces last Sunday they made such a rout, i That the scurrilous author would soon be found out, Then they naggled their heads, while their tails flew about.

To manage children so skilfully that they do not know they are being managed is a great art. A good driver never naggles his horse : he lets the bit prove a guide, but not an irritant.

To niggle; to irritate or bother continually or repeatedly.

Nothing obscene, for goodness sake, but just at the bare threshold of audibility, so that it niggles and naggles and bothers.

Or will the story come first? — the "some incident observed in the subway" which naggles away at the author, until he begins to write about it, seeing only then (but perhaps not really clearly, himself, ever at all) the point of what he is saying,

To haggle; to negotiate argumentatively.

Ye see the wives naggle aboot tripe and sheep heeds , Or washing their greens at a fountain, Where the young Nuns used to be telling their beads, And had nowt but thor sins to be countin';

Nobody wants to naggle about a few months or a year or two, more or less, but the difficulties of the case are exceedingly complicated.

To nag, carp, or quarrel.

Many instances occur daily in which married people go on naggling at one another—naggle, naggle, until they get into a perfect storm—though both would be heartily ashamed for any third party to know what they were quarrelling about.

A child should be joyous, but how, if he be continually naggled at, can he be?

To harass or scold.

I 'll go for my paw if folks naggle me ; an' nobody shall tech me !

She naggles thy heart out, maybe. But that's just the wrigglin' a place out for hersen.

A minor irritant.

So they all revolved round their trailing orbits in the sand, revolved round the naggles in their brains; all, except the sergeant.