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** English
*** Verb
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1. [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The action of the verb _nag_ .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1998 | author=Norah Lillian Lewis | title=Dear editor and friends | page=127
|passage=After breakfast it takes a stout heart and strong nerve to tackle the
burden of dishwashing, separator, milk things, disorderly house, interspersed
with quarrels, NAGGINGS, and interruptions of the children[...]}}
**** Translations
[the action of continually chipping away at somebody's perceived faults]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Maori: [mi]
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*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Causing persistent mild pain , or annoyance .
2. * {{ quote-journal
|1=en |date=2012-01 |author=Michael Riordan |title=Tackling Infinity
|volume=100 |issue=1 |page=86 |magazine=w:American Scientist
|url=http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/tackling-infinity
|passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories,
including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for
decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations
into new domains. Getting rid of these NAGGING infinities has probably
occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
|accessdate=12 May 2013
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430074403/http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/tackling-infinity
|archivedate=30 April 2013 }}
**** Translations
[causing persistent mild pain]
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- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
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