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The term 'nag' to describe a horse originally meant a small horse trained for riding and can be traced back to fifteenth-century English, though it probably goes back further. There's a similar Dutch word in use about that time, but it's unlikely the English word comes from the Dutch; more probably both terms come from another (unknown) source.

'Nag' later came to mean just an old, or worn-out, horse.

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