noodge

[ nooj ]

verb (used with or without object)

, noodged, noodg·ing,

1. a variant of nudge ².

Example Sentences

No committees, no contests, no contracts — just some noodge on the city payroll speaks up, and his buddies say, go for it!

From Los Angeles Times

Venom is rather a noodge, pestering Eddie in a echoey guttural inner voice about his many shortcomings.

From Seattle Times

Lucy Lang is a squeaky wheel, a meddler, a self-described noodge.

From New York Times

He likened Biden to the neighbor who does everything by the book: “In the beginning you think, ‘Gee, what a noodge.’

From Washington Post

He was what you might call a critic-whisperer — sometimes a welcome interlocutor, sometimes what we who have Yiddish speakers in our ancestry would call a noodge.

From Washington Post

Related Words

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