Now dial. [perh. related to SNAG sb.1, but the sense has more connection with NAG v.] intr. To carp, cavil, sneer, nag. Also const. at. Hence Snagging vbl. sb.1
1554. J. Bradford, in Coverdale, Lett. (1564), 326. You are one of hys liuely stones: be contente therefore to be hewen and snagged at.
1642. D. Rogers, Naaman, 14. How much more then should ye beware of snagging and snarling at Gods secrets. Ibid., 291. Let us … be so farre from snagging or nipping of such, that rather we marke them for peculiar ones.
1806. A. Douglas, Poems, 121. Sic snaggin’ an’ braggin’ An’ randy-beggar jaw.
1839. Sir G. C. Lewis, Gloss. Heref., To snag, to teaze, to repeat the same thing several times.
1866. Brogden, Prov. Lincs., Snag, to irritate or scold in an ‘aggravating’ manner.
