knagging

In this occupation they surpass even the notable English housekeeper of the middle orders of society — the latter being confined to “knagging” at her slavey, whereas the Arab lady is allowed an unbounded extent of vocabulary.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

They are a couple of the most cantankerous fellows I ever came across; never done knagging, swearing, grunting, and bellowing.

A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858

And so, he continually knagging at me and I at him, we came as far as the court-yard, when I said to him that, being in the temper he was in, he would do me the pleasure of not coming to see me.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830