nagger

Questions about nagger

What does nagger mean?

nagger means "someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault".

How many syllables are in nagger?

nagger has 2 syllables and divides as nag-ger under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nagger?

Close synonyms include scold, scolder, nag, common scold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nagger a common word?

nagger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.