Horse vs. Nag: What's the Difference?

A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

To annoy by constant scolding, complaining, or urging.

An adult male horse; a stallion.

To torment persistently, as with anxiety or pain.

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

To scold, complain, or find fault constantly

A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

To be a constant source of anxiety or annoyance

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

One who nags.

(Slang) Heroin.

An old or worn-out horse.

Often horses Horsepower

(Slang) A racehorse.

Mounted soldiers; cavalry

(Archaic) A small saddle horse or pony.

A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

A small horse; a pony.

A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

An old, useless horse.

To provide with a horse.

A paramour.

To haul or hoist energetically

Someone or something that nags.

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

A repeated complaint or reminder.

Of or relating to a horse

A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.

Mounted on horses

(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

Drawn or operated by a horse.

To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.

Larger or cruder than others in the same category

To bother or disturb persistently in any way.

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse, especially one that is of inferior breeding or useless.

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

A paramour; - in contempt.

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.

A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.

Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

A component of certain games.

Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

(slang) A large and sturdy person.

An old or over-worked horse

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Bother persistently with trivial complaints;

Equipment with legs.

Worry persistently;

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.

Remind or urge constantly;

A frame with legs, used to support something.

(nautical) Type of equipment.

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

A breastband for a leadsman.

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

A jackstay.

(mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

(slang) Heroin drug.

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

To take or carry on the back.

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

(by extension) To flog.

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

To urge at work tyrannically.

To charge for work before it is finished.

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse - said of a vein - is to divide into branches for a distance.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

Heroin.

Horsepower.

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

To get on horseback.

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Troops trained to fight on horseback;

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Provide with a horse or horses