ABSTRACT
Nag Used entirely negatively on the racecourse to describe any horse which one backs and which does not win. The word’s origin is obscure: its first attestation, in the sense of ‘a small riding horse, or pony’, is from c. 1400.
Nag Used entirely negatively on the racecourse to describe any horse which one backs and which does not win. The word’s origin is obscure: its first attestation, in the sense of ‘a small riding horse, or pony’, is from c. 1400.