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View synonyms for nudnik

nudnik

[ nood-nik ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. a persistently dull, boring pest.


nudnik

/ ˈnʌdnɪk /

noun

  1. informal.
    an annoying or boring person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nudnik1

An Americanism dating back to 1945–50; from Yiddish, equivalent to nud- base of nudyen ( nudge 2 ) + -nik -nik
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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.

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.

Painted in glazes of vibrant, greenish yellow scrawled over a black surface are words like kibitzer and kvetcher; nudnik and nebbish.

The difference is that Knoxville's nudniks volunteer for the slaughter.

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