2. (venery).—The penis: see Creamstick and Prick.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft [Works (1725), p. 174]. Let her alone, and come not at her, But elsewhere, lead thy nag to water.
c.1707. Old Ballad, 'The Trooper Watering His Nag' [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1896), i., 192]. When Night came on to Bed they went, . . . What is this so stiff and warm, . . . 'Tis Ball my nag—he will do you harm.
3. in pl. (venery).—The testes: see Cods. Span., angle.
4. (common).—A whore; a jade (q.v.).
1598. Marston, Scourge of Vill. vi., 64. Gull with bombast lines the witless sense of these odd nags.
1608. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iii., 10, 10. You ribaudred nag of Egypt.
1775. Ash, Dict., s.v. Nag . . . a paramour.
Verb. (colloquial).—To scold, or fault-find persistently; to tiff. Whence nagger = a persistent scold; nagging (subs. and adj.)
fault-finding; and naggy
shrewish; irritable.
1846. Notes and Queries, x., 89. Nagging—whence is this word derived?
1861. Thackeray, Lovell the Widower, iii. Is it pleasing to . . . have your wife nag-nagging you because she has not been invited to the Lady Chancelloress's soiree, or what not.
1869. Orchestra, Mar. 14, 'Reviews.' Don't nag. I know the expression is vulgar, and not in the dictionaries.
c.1870. Dickens, Ruined by Railways. You always heard her nagging the maids.
1872. Daily News, 10 Aug. Harvey pleaded in his defence that his wife was a nagger.
1880. W. D. Howells, The Undiscovered Country, ii. The . . . sparrows . . . quarrelled about over the grass, or made love like the nagging lovers out of a lady's novel.
1882. Athenæum, 25 Feb. Describes Agnes as having nagged the painter to death.
1884. Besant, Julia, ii. Where there would be no old grandmother to beat and nag at her.
To water the nag (or dragon), verb. phr. (common).—To urinate: see Dragon.
To tether one's nag, verb. phr. (Scots').—To copulate: see Greens and Ride.
Nag-drag, subs. phr. (thieves').—A
term of three months' imprisonment:
see Drag.
Naggie, subs. (venery).—1. The
female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
2. See Nag, subs., sense 1.
Naggle, verb. (colloquial).—To
toss the head in a stiff and affected
manner.—Halliwell (1847).
Nail, subs. (Winchester College).—1.
See quots. and Bibling under
nail.
1866. Mansfield, Sch. Life Winchester, s.v. Nail. To stand up under the nail. The punishment inflicted on a boy detected in a lie; he was ordered to stand up on Junior Row, just under the centre sconce, during the whole of school time. At the close of it he received a 'Bibler.'
1887. Adams, Wykehamica, s.v. Nail, the central sconce at the east and west ends of the school were so-called. A boy who had committed some unusually disgraceful offence, was placed there during school, previously to being 'bibled.'
2. (Old and Scots').—Disposition; spirit; nature. The auld nail = original sin; a bad nail = a bad disposition; a guid nail = a good disposition. Also as in quot. 1819.
