What is "nudgings"

Usage examples of "nudgings".

And with the whisperings went chucklings and nudgings and winks, and such things have an effect.

Despite Robert's nudgings and coaxings, he refused to speak to the guest.

Don surrendered himself to all their grim nudgings in the direction of way-down.

Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells, and a fragrance filling the air—to a higher life than we fell asleep from.