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nudnik
[ nood-nik ]
noun
, Slang.
- a persistently dull, boring pest.
nudnik
/ ˈnʌdnɪk /
noun
- informal.an annoying or boring person
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nudnik1
C20: from Yiddish nudyen to bore + -nik
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Example Sentences
Tarantino has become a nudnik filmmaker, who grabs a viewer by the lapel and says—and says and says—what’s on his mind.
From The New Yorker
He never stupidly based gender in language alone—like all those nerdy post-structuralist nudniks who infest academe.
From Salon
Alice is a nudnik and a connoisseur and a troubled person.
From The New Yorker
Painted in glazes of vibrant, greenish yellow scrawled over a black surface are words like kibitzer and kvetcher; nudnik and nebbish.
From New York Times
The difference is that Knoxville's nudniks volunteer for the slaughter.
From Time
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