Meaning

3 senses
  1. (UK, slang)To annoy or irritate deliberately.

  2. (transitive)To express or imply a negative value judgement of someone to make them desire one's approval, especially when trying to pick up a date.

  3. (Internet, transitive)To leave negative feedback about (someone) in a reputation tracking system.

    I negged the seller who didn't send me the widget I paid for.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

Clipping of negative.

Clipping of negative.

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Forms

negs, negging, negged, negged
Base formneg · to neg
3rd person singularnegs
Present participlenegging
Past simplenegged
Past participlenegged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyneg
he, she, itnegs

Past simpleLesson

all personsnegged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave negged
he, she, ithas negged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill neg

Word family

1 related words
Derivednegger

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
neg — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto