Dictionary / Vocabulary / 小言
こごと
scolding; telling-off; rebuke; lecture
common word Also written 叱言
奥さんのがみがみ小言にフレッドさんは大弱りの体であった。
Fred was very troubled by his wife's nagging.
父の小言が私の胸にしみじみとこたえたのはその時だった。
It was then that my father's reproof had come home to me.
彼女の小言にはうんざりしている。
I'm tired of her complaints.