Naggle

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.

Over his prostrate body we ambled, the ill - tempered little beast naggling at its bit, and doing his utmost to unseat me .

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,

There is Rhoda who has jumped out of an excellent position with the Prudential into some ridiculous place where they bore holes in strips of metal for little boys to play with —Meccano, is it called?—and poor Vera Potter in a sanatorium, they say both lungs are affected—and I still cannot help thinking about Cassica's cousin...Oh, how it all niggles and naggles ...

But I knew the doctor's words naggled in the back of his mind.

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';