Noun pain in the neck has 2 senses
- pain, pain in the neck, nuisance - a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain"
--1 is a kind of unpleasant person, disagreeable person
- annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass - something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
--2 is a kind of negative stimulus
--2 has particulars: nuisance; irritant, thorn; plague
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